"Brains originated from an artistic theme that I started working on in the eighties, with the girl Karolina Olsson who slept, or according to speculation consciously chose not to live for 32 years. Throughout my career, I have worked as both an artist and a designer. I like to develop objects that are suitable for production at the mill. So I scaled it down to these heads that I see as meditative anti-stress objects, for both the hand and the eye. I made a series with my own expressions and names such as Albert Einstein, Caesar and Pablo Picasso, the gods Thor and Odin and others. I know a man who always took Caesar with him when he went on his hikes. Now I have made a new series with twelve new `individuals´ for the Kosta Boda Artist Collection; without names, but with small poetic sentences, commenting on life's events. I myself think they are pleasant company…”

– Bertil Vallien

The series was launched in 1999.