Jacob Felländer, born in 1974 in Stockholm, is a prominent artist with a background in fine art photography and graphic design. His artistic journey commenced at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and continued at San Diego State University. In the 1990s, Felländer began experimenting with landscape photography, and by 2004, he had perfected his art using vintage film cameras to capture multiple exposures in a single image.

Felländer is renowned for his abstract photographs of cityscapes and landscapes from various parts of the world. In 2011, he presented "I Want To Live Closer To You" at Fotografiska in Stockholm, where he traveled to the world's most densely populated cities over twelve days. His goal was to experiment with capturing the entire world in a single, multi-exposed negative. Felländer's photographic experiments, with the auctioned piece being an example, resulted in several panoramic works where cities seamlessly merge with an incisive intensity, and details emerge from the visual noise.

Below, Felländer himself articulates his fascination with the urban landscape and the close coexistence of people in cities in connection with his project "I Want To Live Closer To You."

"As places and people melded together before me, I became increasingly fascinated by how closely we all live. For the first time in human history, there are more of us living in cities than in the countryside, and we have invested infinite resources in creating the most astonishingly infrastructured urban landscapes. I can't help but be fascinated by these creations. Our way of life in these places may seem grotesque, but we surprisingly get along well in our cities. We may think we are different; we may think we like or dislike each other. Yet, we choose to live so extremely close: next to, under, above. Close. Close to each other."

-Jacob Felländer, April 2011