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- more 2010 - 2011
- focus
- One side of the pictures is a photo printed on canvas, the other is a painting. During some conversations with my psychologist girlfriend she tried out a psychoanalytic method, called Focus on me. She made me speak of childhood experiences and other things I am currently interested in. While reliving these experiences, other images, in connection with these, came to my mind. I painted these diptychs, as a mixture of "autobiographical" and partly imaginary components. The Contrast of photo and painting helps to point out that what you see is just partly "objective" reality. I have formed stories and alternative realities, along what, in a certain situation, I pondered my life, my personality, and possible directions of evolution.
- my movies
- Sometimes in a movie, not particularly interesting in itself, I find some scenes that tell me more than what is strictly needed for the story telling. I see things someway parallel with my own thoughts and feelings, they are more about me than the movie. From these scenes I chose photos, which I’ve put in a new context, and I’ve made my own version of them. The painting is my real or imagined story written into the ready made narrative of a movie, a psychological roleplaying game in the situations of an alternative life. My goal is to make the viewer use the storyboard-like sequences of my painting as a starting point, and fill it with his or her own related thoughts, just as I used the original movie. Taking over some typical solutions of storytelling might inspire the viewer to make a new story.
- after degree
- degree work
- narrative sequence
- In the last few years I have been working on a research of narration on my paintings. The diptichs of the narrative sequence were the first steps. I’m trying to give the impression of narration by putting seemingly independent images on one board, next to each other. The idea came from the method of movie editing. I’ve noticed that even a rapid change in the object, or the point of view suggests a row of different events. A scene when painted is normally the depiction of a characteristic moment in a single space. I’m trying to inspire the viewer with these fragmented, storyboard like images of mine to try to connect them with his or her own story.
- 2004 - 2006
- Proust sequence
- Altar (?)
- white sequence
- 2000 - 2001
