CARBORUNDUM – CHINE COLLÉ and some drypoint My featured picture for this post shows “Nature´s Spirit”. It contains it all; carborundum, drypoint and chine collé. The print was done without any sketch, just starting out painting carborundum, following up with drypoint/engraving. It was a journey of the unexpected. And still, looking at it afterwards I recognize it all. I feel …
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
Not my words! It is Picasso´s. This is what it is all about. Working consistently. Staying in the process, keeping the flow alive. Knock knock!!! Someone is on the door. It is Inspiration coming to visit. You better be prepared! According to my plan I would change approach, starting out from black, moving towards the light. Till now the …
I love factories – and Awagami Factory is no exception.
Days float like a river, sometimes calm and clear, and sometimes unpredictable. It is all about water. Pulp floating in water, linking together, making shiny, wet canvases to work in and on. Every day there is only one question, “what if I try….” No normal, daily life with all the disturbances. I enjoy the life in the factory, working side …
Questioning the pulp – reaching for the stars
As I did not understand the dialogue between the employees, or being able to talk much with them, I was having a kind of inner dialogue with myself, about clouds on the sky, wondering how it would work out to actually catch one of them, or freeze the blue sky and keep it for rainy days. Takuma Abe is the …
Pulp painting – “Heavens footstep on Earth”
Day two at Awagami Factory, Japan. I brought a bunch of sketches. The idea was to create a body of work, where each work would be able to stand alone, but also be part of a bigger installation consisting of square formats and organic shapes. I started out with the geometric shapes, and within each piece I would work with …
Pulp Paradise – four weeks at Awagami Factory, Japan
After totally 6 weeks in Japan, I have returned home to Norway. I started dreaming of going to Japan, to visit the factory and learn about washi, years ago. Now it feels kind of surreal to look back on four weeks as visiting artist, being allowed in to the pulp paradise of Awagami factory. It was love by first touch! …
ART CONNECTS
When an idea occurs, or may be I should rather call it a feeling of progress, I grab my pencil and very quickly make the notes needed for remembering. Weeks later I find my notes, wondering what this is about. The intentions are forgotten, and I am left with some scribble I cannot interpret any longer. Till I find another …