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spray paint and simplicity (boring!) |
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a combination of Stephen King feeling, a pig and I don't know what .... As I'm very repetitive when it comes to my paintings right now (yes - you guessed right: laughters) and kind of risk to bore you if I post more from that process - I thought I should instead share some other "Morran attempts". (I kind of like the first one though) |
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I was lifting the jar of gesso (a primer with the consistency of yoghurt, but more sticky and fast drying) by the lid - but it wasn't fastened properly... I dropped it, but kind of caught it again in a juggling kind of way and managed to get the content to fly up the ceiling, and then down all over me: in my hair, covered my face (really covered) and all over my clothes. A good amount hit the walls as well. After checking I hadn't destroyed any art piece I just laughed and laughed. Luckily I was wearing my studio clothes. But my hair will stay whitish for a while. today Cissi mounted her commission |
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Last week (Thursday night) I went to the opening of Daniel Milton's exhibition "La la land" at Galleri Thomassen here in Gothenburg. I've known him "web-wise" for 2-3 years now, but never seen him or his art in real life before. As it should be his art is to been seen in reality; his play with depiction/representation and digital imagery loses something when only seen on photos or screen. Daniel turned out to be very simpatico, which didn't surprise me either. The exhibition will be on until October 30th read my interview with Daniel Milton from last year |
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Cultural Night on Friday night; night of 1000 drawings - exhibition selling art donated by 100 artists from Göteborg to support Faktum, a magazine for the homeless. The exhibition was arranged by DIY. |
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drawings by Christin Wahlström Eriksson |
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the screen print I donated is the one with the fish I think it was very successful; when I came there half an hour after opening a third of the art was sold. Great initiative! It was crowded and a lot of good art to see, but I must admit I got most interested in watching people looking at the art ... |
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| I love the way it can look in process sometimes, those involuntary magic results ... like after spray painting today. I'm finally painting my small version of Snow white, Batman and the Phantom. It is to be exhibited on Friday at Kulturnatta ("culture night", which means a lot is going on all night; exhibitions, theatre plays, music etc) Unfortunately spray-painting isn't for me at all as I'm too sensitive; I got so dizzy in spite of open windows, wearing a mask and immediately leaving the room afterwards - that I couldn't cut with my scissors with precision the 3 following hours. And that was just after spray painting the base coat! |
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| ... not that it has anything to do with the simplicity I've been trying to achieve in my painting lately, But it made me laugh. |
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| I felt I needed some more laughter. |
| Not many words in my posts lately, but as it is now I don't really feel I have anything to write. I'm so into my work in my studio, into images. But the words should hopefully return to me. |
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| Now I'm starting to loosen up. Scissors, knives and paintings that didn't really do (but still had something). I felt a bit paralysed after finishing my polyptych the other day ... and almost forgot that I was supposed to do whatever and just have fun in my studio this autumn - to see where that would lead me. This morning when I went for a run I suddenly knew what to do. (I'm painting parallel to this as well) |
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| my latest work; a polyptych - or to be more precise a hexaptych. (Which means I consider it to be one art piece that shouldn't be divided. Here I'm being absolutely non-commercial in my thinking ... ) Camilla is making a book full of Morran and you can contribute with your interpretation. It's an Open call! |
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| I just realized I never properly showed you how how my studio became after I reorganized it and painted it white white and white. I more or less managed to get all my storage on one wall - and moved my table and four of my chairs to our lunch room. Ahhh - Space. |
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| 20 - the anniversary Grafik i Väst (a printmaker's association) is celebrating. Here the catalogue to celebrate the occasion. |
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| 5 - the page where you will find my screenprint "POW!" |
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| 104 - how many other artists you will find in the catalogue. Check it out here 1 - where you will find me in the on-line catalogue (the link above) 910 - the number of this post .... 0 - minutes is actually the time I should spend blogging tonight (now I'm on borrowed time) |
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| titthål = peep hole |
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| Today we visited the Art Museum and saw the exhibition on Jan Lööf (illustrator, model-builder, writer, film-maker and more). They have made a playful little exhibition with fun solutions. The kiddo enjoyed it a lot and was especially fascinated with how the films were made; they showed black and white behind the scenes clips with the models and figures and then clips with the results. (My genius 6 year old son is already making stop motion movies with his lego and my old digital camera) |
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| detail I'm working with laughter. To get the right feeling I smile like the Joker in Batman while painting. It has to be like a grin. And it should be effortless. (It's exhausting. I've washed away several painting that didn't do. The sponge is my most used tool) |
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| My studio neighbour Cissi has been working on a public commission for a preschool at the same time as I have been working on my commissioned art piece (the one in my last post). So I've been following her work in progress for a year and I've been so curious to see the final results. Today I finally got to see Cissi's patterns printed on different fabrics. It might look good on the screen, but it is so so much better in real life! Unfortunately Cissi is moving to another studio :( I'll miss you, Cissi! |
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