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This one describes much of the same as sol but in it’s feminin aspect.

I’m posting a couple of my less recent work. Today is the deadline for applying for the Autumn Exhibit in Oslo (Høstutstillingen) which is a big deal for artists in Norway. Looking through my work I wanted to find something less mainstream. “Sol” popped upp as a good choice I think. This is a full figure painting but all I had on archive was the top part. To me it is a disturbing painting, everything is somewhat off. The idea is that man is born out of the sun. The figure is pointing at a flame in the bottom half of the picture.

This drawing describes the central problem with abstraction versus realism. The grey pencil lines describes an arm and indeed it looks like an arm. On the left you see a yellow spot done with a coloured pencil. To me the yellow spot is closer to the term “realism” than the drawing of the hand. The drawing of the hand is a bluff. An impotent attempted copy of something real. A good way to understand how something in the real world looks like but nothing more than a study. The yellow spot on the other hand is real. It reveals nothing more than itself and does not pretend to be something it is not.

I’m digging upp som old stuff from time to time. This one is from a scetchbook. I use to do allot of drawing in scetchbooks. It seems as waste to do it now except for when travelling. Not all of my work can be repeated. In the new drawings I suppose I can repeat myself to try to get it just right. Anyway, I prefer the single sheet as an art object. A book is allways somewhat secretive and private. The single sheet is unpretentious and accesible in most situations.

A drawing from a series I made in 2006. Completely different from my current work. A pastell fixed with melted wax. The circle is drawn with graphite. Simple and childlike. I have to be in a peculiar state of mind to do stuff like this. Balanced and careless which I’m not allways at. The result is allmost accidental which in my view usually creates good work. I suppose the newer linear drawings are a struggle with this concept. A attempt to forge the rational with the gestural.

Into the archives. This one may or may not be a way to describe the golden section. A beautifull construct by Euclid in all it’s simplicity