Ness studied at the Rhode Island School of Design after leaving Sweden, then joined the Brown staff in 1990, where she’s now a senior library technologist at the John Hay. After meeting Ness, Eriksson pivoted away from math to study art, becoming a professor, and now is a full-time artist based in Gothenborg, Sweden, where she runs Vague Research Studios. (Colleen Cronin/ecoRI News)“Forty years of friendship,” Eriksson said. In addition to the art, archival material both from Brown and Sweden tell the history of the rocks and their homes. “Even images of the Taberg, of this, like, obscure mountain in Sweden, we have that in this library,” Ness said.