Loving Ink Tattoo

all cracked up but kind of beautiful still.

Ok……here we go….

yet another painting from the past. This one I found hanging in my sisters garage (friggebod). I seem too hang around in a lot of garages lately. I even live in one. I dont know when I painted this, but I think in 2002-2003. I cant really comment this one…I just wonder what is going on in my head sometimes….

(and I have even glues on a little sticker with different screws….How screwed!)

Oooooh my goooooood!!! I found this in the garage – yet another teenage painting. It HUGE, 2.5×1.5 m, and I made it when I was 14-15. i mean, just look what is going on in this picture….hahahaha, I wonder what my parents thought about this…..

And look ant the grapes hanging from the oh, so very roman pillars, hahhahah! Was this my idéa of a total paradise? Or a roman relax-spa? HAHAHAHAHA!

I made this 8 years ago I think. Oil on canvas 2.5 x 1 m.

Its finished. I dont know what to call it. “Control” I think. Any suggestions – anyone?

It´s funny how I paint something, and I am so into it, and when I am finished, I look at what I have done and it looks…just stupid. The magic is gone. I have to paint another one now.

This is how I feel right now. Shall I call this piece “I am loosing my head” or “hold on” or maybe “black rope”.

Its not finished yet, there is going to be Iris flowers all around that cold bitch. And more details.

I dont know. I think I am going to call it SEPARATION.

I found this painting in our storage a while ago. I painted it when I was 13 I think. Lucky I painted and did´nt do other stuff too get all the teenagefeelings out (or?). Such a teenage scream! hahahaha, makes me giggle of embarresment. I also have some old paintings, i must put them out here, if i dare.

This painting was a gift for my sister when she moved to her new house.  She said “No colours, I dont like colours”, so it´s quite different from what I usually paint. She got a little pimp gold in the wings. Its looooong, 2 1/2 meters I think. It did´nt fit in the photo anyway.

My new favorite artist is Christian Kjellvander – I saw him playing this weekend, it was almost a religious experience, I had forgotten how wonderful music can be. Real music. I got inspired from one of his songs called ” No Heaven”.

“…there is no paradise, only good days and nights”

I have to remember that very carefully.

Such a cheesy title, but its really kind of whats going on in this painting. Oh and the sexy look of course.

I love geishas, theres something very intruiging about them. Powerful, beautiful, educated, erotic and such a hard and polished surface. They are cool!

This illustration was in a magazine last month. It was for a column about how you are not your past, that you create your own life and your own thoughts. Thanx Karin for hooking me up.

This is one of the worlds most reinvented image – Jesus dying in Mother Marys arms.

I thought I´d  make my own interpretation of this image. The MAN dying in the WOMANs arms. The man, even in his last moment, in the spotlight, weak, the martyr, the extrovert, the non-communicator, the pampered, all beautiful and heroic in his pain. The woman holding him, in the background, nursering him, introvert, covered,  holding him together, not able to show her pain and sorrow and even in that horrible moment giving to someone else.

No I did not have a bad childhood, no I am not a militant feminist.

I am just a woman. (or maybe I just had a dramatic moment!)