The bookshelf

The visual aspect of a book talks to me very strongly as well as the influential powers it has.
As an object it is very hard, collected and silent in its form, yet, inside it seems to be as full of life as a living person, something I guess I can relate to - acting collected when there's actually a lot going on inside.
I have chosen to display a few books that have influenced my gaze on the world, and a few books that I allow to further influence me.

Collage 100x70 cm
 

The chemical formula of the turquoise stone

The turquoise stone is the stone of Taurus, my zodiac sign.

I like the contrast between the uncontrolled abstract pattern and the graphic, perfectly straight letters of its chemical formula - two very different ways to understand the stone.

I create the pattern by pouring a lot of watery acrylic colors on to the canvas while lying on the floor, then tilt the canvas around to make the colors flow in all directions.

 

Acrylics on canvas 50x60cm



Tumi

Ancient cultures such as the Inca culture facinate me and inspire me in my art practice so I wanted to use something from the Inca culture in my painting.
The Tumi was used by the Incas as a knife in sacrificial rituals where llamas were sacrificed. It’s made of gold and turquoise stones. 

My intention is to create a tension between the abstract background and the geometrical shapes of the motif, between the brutal aspect of the Tumi and the sweetness of the pink colours.

 

 

Acrylics on canvas 50x60cm



Two sides of the same creation

Are there good people and evil people? I think we all carry evil and good inside, who we are depends on wether we choose evil or good. But even if we choose it’s hard to exclude one or the other completly.
In my painting I try to portray this with a two-sided person—one ugly, destorted, evil side and one good beautiful side. The ugliness/evil is also a representation of feelings like bitterness, envy, jealousy, selfdestruction etc.

 

Acrylics on canvas 50x60cm

Swedish green marble

The investigation focuses on the tension between the abstract background and the geometrical form. The inspiration comes from old books and the stone ”swedish green marble”.

 

Acrylics on canvas 60x80cm

To the sea

Dreaming away to the sea…

I tried to make the letters look like they are floating on the water. Again it’s about the contrast between abstract and graphic. The sea to me represents peace and silence, pureness and honesty. It’s uncontrollable and timeless. The painting makes me remember the sea and what it means to me, which I then carry with me.

 

Acrylics on canvas 50x60cm

Different perspectives

Things look very different or might even have another meaning depending on what perspective one has – where you come from, under what circumstances you live and which culture you have grown up in. To understand someone with a different background and life than your own, for example, you have to change your perspective.  I try to illustrate this with a number of words that have a different meaning when red backwards by writing them on transparent Plexiglas to give the viewer the possibility to look at the piece from two sides and thereby see different words. 

 

Acrylics on plexiglass 60x90 cm

Beyond dreams

I wanted to work with a material that bears some kind of truth, and to me nature is the only true thing, it’s where I see myself clear, where I get comfort and peace. The dried flowers represent something unreachable, dead, dried out but still preserving some kind of beauty. Isolated between glass, alone, cold, fixed and dried out of life. The acrylic glass and the paint contrast the beautiful dream of nature and remind me of how isolated nature is from me. It seems so hard to touch, to reach.

Plexiglas, acrylic paint, dried flowers and paper, 60x80 cm