One seems to look at one side, picking up the yellow edges and naturally seeking the continuation of the yellow on the other side. Hakan sees this process of turning the eye around the work as behaving as if it is a sculpture in the round. It is this philosophy of seeing that is at the base of his concept. Hakan is an astute reader of Greek literature and philosophy. Holes in the sheet metal allow the viewer to peek in.
Older works deal with the same problem in a more aggressive way.
Only the edges of the black surface underneath appear. The next rectangle has a dense flat front that is totally forbidding. The third offers an exotic atmospheric space rendered with a tumultuous combination of brushstrokes, eerily reminiscent of the works of French artist Gustave Moreau. The work is iconography, if only in composition, for the circle lies just above center as in the coda of the Middle Ages. Hakan's latest work, know exhibited in a museum in South Sweden, is a monumental 'box made of aluminum, glass and steel sheets, called The Sealed Studio.