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Today, on my second workshop day, we followed a green yarn to the princesse's magic tree house (now in a new place). In another tiny book we got the task to follow an almost invisible thread to ...
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... a bird's nest where we found yarn eggs - and then we got to work.
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... the magic road led us to another road that shrank and became a tiny path leading to a tiny tiny door
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we knocked and opened the door
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No one was at home, but we found a tiny tiny book and learned that a tiny princess lived in the house and then we read about ourselves!
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... and got the task to build with the magic sticks
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this girl built something very different from the others
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Today I had the first of four outdoor workshops with children at a preschool. Together we found at magic road in the forrest. By putting the last part first - over and over again - we made it move forward through passages towards a secret place ...
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Yesterday was the last day of a wall painting project I've been leading at a school in Alingsås; giving the school toilets that special touch ... Above are some of the results.
One of these paintings was made by the math teacher (who was also present at class as my support) - can you guess which one?
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Next week I'll start a series of outdoor workshops with children at a preschool (age 1-3 and 3-5). I haven't seen the spot where we'll be yet - I'm planning to make it mostly site specific. So far I have the ideas of sticks and threads, roads/passages and dwellings which can be adapted to most spaces.
Tomorrow I have to get up very early to catch a train to Alingsås for the last day of another pedagogic project; a wallpainting project with teenagers. We've finally reached the part when we will do the actual painting!
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Today I went to the forrest to get some ideas and gather material for a workshop in visual play. More photos tomorrow ...
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For what feels like uncountable days I've been cleaning, arranging, sorting, cutting old paintings into pieces, throwing stuff away etc. The amount of stuff I've collected! I'm keeping the old self portrait though (it must be more than 15 years old). I laughed when I realized I still use those working paints, but now for screen printing ...
By Friday I should have arranged it all in my studio ...
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I'm going through everything I have and I plan thoroughly where everything should be - this time I'm going for a system that will work! (I need systems or I'm a total mess)
... and I'm so happy about my sliding doors. I let them slide left and right - and everything goes so smoothly. Just some more white paint and they will be perfect!
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cutting of the ribbon to inaugurate the exhibition
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me reading (photo Angelica Olsson)
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Reading my own book (photo Angelica Olsson)
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Saturday 16 March at 11:00
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my son wanted to take part when I was taking photos of my paper cuts for my book "Allra Bästaste vänner". I've been working far too much lately so he's been pissed off: "you love working first, then me"
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.... versus old studio
The moving is fairly easy - I'm moving to a new studio in the same building on the same floor. I've been having my studio here for 3,5 years, worked here for 6 separate exhibitions - and it was simply getting too small.
... but the big question is; will my new studio still seem big after all my stuff gets in there?
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Summer will be here faster than you might think ...
- You can already now apply for the course in screen printing big format that I will teach at HDK during June and August! The course is in collaboration with KKV (artists' collective workshops) where the actual printing will take place.
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 On demand I've simplified my suggestion for that art piece in the stairs of a school (photo montage above). Let's hope they'll go for this one. And yes, this girl is still working every day! I've been so busy I've not even been active on Instagram ... Tomorrow I'm starting a new creative school project - a wall painting project again. And next week - yes yes yes!!! - I'll start moving into my new studio! |
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Yesterday there was a review of my exhibition in Borås Tidning. A review that I'm very happy about! ... and just some minor things that weren't really correct - or misunderstandings; I might not have been as clear about things as I thought (?) (what you might wonder? The ex-Beatle Paul MacCartNEy hasn't had any influence on my art - I mentioned though that an art critique had compared how I treated a subject to Paul MacCarthy... And the only one I've consciously glanced at while painting is Bacon. Saville/Freud are good painters though. And - yes, I've put money aside to be able to put together this exhibition as I've worked for it for two years - being an investment that can't pay off until exhibited - but I wouldn't say I've used my savings ... haven't had any savings the last 10 years making a living as an artist. This said - probably just me who cared or noticed. The important thing after all is that I felt this journalist understood my paintings!)
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Yesterday we finished hanging my exhibition.
Welcome to the opening tomorrow 12:00-16:00
Österlånggatan 16
Borås
If you can not come to the opening, don't worry; you have until the 2nd of March!
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I almost didn't get asked to sketch for this commission as the art consultant thought, when reading my blog in December, that I probably was too busy ...
(She didn't know about my super powers)
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