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Index Cards | Cut and paste and smash bang

Index Cards | Cut and paste and smash bang

I got to take a creative summer class last week, which was just lovely. There I got to experiment with clay and then painting for a bit, out of my comfort zone surrounded by people and with new materials. It was nice, but it made me so tired I didn’t manage to post any updates […]

Art Journal Peek | Unapologetic

Art Journal Peek | Unapologetic

Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle. L. Lionel Kendrick More naked than I dare to be in the world, this comes […]

A Tiny Step Forward Collage

A Tiny Step Forward Collage

Sometimes it’s hard to find the words to say I’ll go ahead and say them anyway Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits… It’s hard, it’s hard, it’s hard out here for a bitch Lilly Allen Sometimes it’s hard to hear all the advice on how to make your life better. Hard. Just […]

365 Collages | Week 38

365 Collages | Week 38

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood… Tchaikovsky Hidden from view After a week of Week in the Life-documentation with heavy photo posts I’m back with a collage-only-post. Art, yay right? But I’m not sure I personally like any of these collages. I don’t […]

Art journal peek: Take your pills

Art journal peek: Take your pills

Another page from my loose pages series. This one has a sadness to it, not sure if you can tell? Antidepressive pills along with depressing quotes…. The quotes by Pascal and Donne are in Swedish, and taken from some paper I got at university when I took Philosophy for one semester. I love this page […]

Art journaling some more darkness

Art journaling some more darkness

This page is a hodge podge of different things and “darkness imagery” that I really like. The very cool hanging bat is actually in the altered book, so I just painted black around those images. Then I’ve added magazine images, ephemera, labels, printed tissue paper with my own doodle and my own copied and spray […]

La Catrina dances in Sweden

La Catrina dances in Sweden

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live… Bette Midler When I read in the paper […]