exhibition

Textile Art from Skåne.
Exhibition in Rättvik, Dalarna, Sweden.
The opening went well! My colleagues are gorgeous and everyone who attended seemed genuinely interested in our work. It was a happy-happening!

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Exhibition coming up! Opening on Saturday in Rättvik in Sweden. Me and four collegues, I'll show You pics later.
This piece that's been in progress is now to be shown. I'm on the train up North to take part of the happening!

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detail.

progress XI

detail.
Cut out from an old book about the Earth.

progress X

Under construction.
During Time and Timelessness.

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detail

progress VIII

I pray, Earth please stay.

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detail

cooperation

gooseberries, pumpkin, broccoli, apple-mint together in one tiny spot. A veggie hug?

metamorphosis

Happy harvest
in a small scale
and magnificent
yellow and green

metamorphosis
from seed
to food.

Ariane, I'm thinking of You.

metamorphosis
I'm saying Your name
Your name is in my voice.

two

The rainbows were following us like two cats when you go for a walk.

water

Rain drops in bloom.

Thank You
for the little that is mine
it is not little
it is all I have
it is all
then it is much.

yellow happiness

Happiness is often yellow I think.

This piece of happiness is growing in our tiny pedagogical garden.

I miss You my dear blogfriends I'm not so outspoken these days. But all well and knotting my thoughts in the right direction. I'm still trying to figure out how and why to gather my mind and my wish for expression. Maybe I can find the answer in between the question and the answer. My experience though is that that spot is incredibly huge, I don't know where to start.
Our computer is also really slow nowadays so it's hard for me to catch up with You and comment. You are still in my sphere.

We have summer days here, me and the kids are hanging around and enjoying our selves!

Love xx

pink poppy

I'm looking for the organic road
I'm searching for patterns to show me the way
I'm walking that way
it's a pattern
an organic show
I'm looking

kite

I wish
this was our every day life.

orange

Poppy at sunset.

yellow and grey

When the sun isn't able to shine the ground takes its place for a while. At least here in these yellow fields under the grey sky.

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My symbol of spirit in this Rebirth piece is in place. Three prints with yellow pink and blue.

dream

Todays drawing challenge is dream at clever Nadine's
I didn't draw,
but I dream...

about silence.
the sounds of silence

the only noice allowed / aloud in my dream are sounds of Nature
like childrens voices and whispers of wind.

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The grey part is in place. Here symbol for ashes.
and the bird starts to appear...
Rebirth.

It/She/He/You/Me

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Started the printing process, yay!

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The smaller sketch.

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In Malmö at KKV-textil prepared for screen printing on fabric. This piece is going to be almost four meters. All ready...

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My boy helping me out in the studio. Huge sketch is finished and awaiting next step, remember this bird?. Next step will be taken in Malmö at KKV.
Coming up...

just a minute

So many things has been happening

yet I´m in the same place

surrounding myself with the same surrounding.

a chrysalis

a cycle

a minute

of

a lifetime

a lifetime

in

a minute

I take

a minute

in to

a chrysalis

decades

later 

it

liberates

in

the cycle
of
a lifetime
the minute
pupates

tiny wings

arise

the minute

releases

it

is gone

within

a minute.

the tree

sleeping in a tree.
I listen to them play,
the boy says:
this is life.

detta är livet.

in the hand of

a part of a sketch
a part of me

translation map

Here are the english words for the first pic in the post map, two steps below. I hope You can manage to decipher it.

kär lek

An update for love
Kärlek - Love
The swedish word kärlek is made of the two words kär and lek.
kär - in love
lek - play.
Now go and play in love!

map

This weeks host of drawing challenge is perfect Hi Happy Panda with map. If You haven´t been visiting Rachel - GO THERE! She shows a wonderful view of Life on her blog.

Now for the map, I´m showing some old work that is still in progress. It´s old as in I started it eleven years ago and Old as in the deepth of knowledge that comes from it, as it comes to me from Timelessness. They are sort of maps or compasses. I often do metaphysical maps. I don´t really know yet how to talk about it/them. And I´m quite brave to show this work... I have rarely shown it for a decade. They are here as well.
The third pic is a map of colour nuances. I save my mixtures in a cover. I am strictly bound to some of the nuances that my inner maps show me. So I really need to know how I got there, at least practically in the mixture process. Because there is no way (yet) for me to theoretically describe or lead the way in or out of my maps, or is there?

I´ll come back with a translation of the first pic.
Now off to the forest, we´ra having a barbecue with some friends. Sweet sunday!

oh no...

My son made a drawing of me.
Now what with the choice of magnet on the fridge?! I hope not an omen :)

trigger

Many pieces of pieces in progress.

crown

At home in the studio.

crown of a root

Crown of a tree or a root system.
Same same but different.
Vice versa
and wholly.

anyway a detail from a work in progress.

m i r r o r

duplicate
KÄRLEK LOVE

Love Your self
and it will be easier for me,
thank You.

mirror

Drawing challenge: mirror. Ain't that an interesting choice?! Visit the clever Ariane for more mirroring!
In my mirror the word KÄRLEK = LOVE
Quadrupled
Love Love Love Love

and it's increasing
endlessly
LOVE!

(hey, Jasmins mirror reminded me of this)

priority

The symbolic value of economy is higher than the economical value of symbolism.

How come then that economy has a higher status than symbolism? It should be the other way around.

meditate

Backåkra in my heart.
A stone cirkle for meditation out in the fields in honor of Dag Hammarskjöld. A man who was devoted to Life and Peace.
Here and here and here and here some more pics from our visits to these fields.

the self

So I say to my kids go in to freedom now before we go home.
Because in the city there is not much space to be free. As we all know in freedom there is much space to be me. In freedom You can find Your self.

He stands like this for hours.

free

The four of us walk in to this piece of Nature together and again all by our selves.
In this extraordinary still life of movement we are allowed to be introvert.

breath

To reach this spot in the south of Sweden. Breathtaking!
We meet only a few other people that found their way this chill day but loads of birds coming in from south-west making formations in the sky line.

Gosh! The Light here is Light!

forest

Biking on these gentle roads in the heart of a fairy forest.

hike

We took the kiddos the dinos and the bikes for a weekend in the wilderness.

tail

A tail as a braid as a tail.

Drawing challenge at sweet Jasmin with tail. Please visit!
and tail if You want!

eyes wide open

Looking at different ways of things to see. Looking at things differently. Looking at different things. Looking different while looking at things. Looking in to looking out. Look out for a good looking way of things to look in to.

snowdrop

Splendid precious perfect tiny piece of Nature. Just like You and me.

the river

Jag flyter på Kristus, floden.
Det lergula gyllene vattnet.
Jag knäpper mina händer ovanför mitt huvud.
Armarna formas till ett öga, ansiktet dess pupill.
Ur djupet av mina anletsdrag minns jag
resans fasta punkt;
rörelsen.

I float on Christ, the river.
The ochre golden water.
I fold my hands above my head.
Arms in the shape of an eye, face as a pupil.
From the depth of my features, remembrance
the secure spot of the journey;
the movement.