colour samples, translucent beeswax paint
Follow the daylight; that is, where the morning sun comes in, colour should bring out its bright, warm character. Noonday light is sharper and may need softening and modulation according to the room’s size and its use. The light of the setting sun, again, has yet another quality; here it reaches into the livingroom and the bedroom with their greyish rose/blue shades.
From blue to rose; here, colour design is based on two pigments, ultramarine and pompeiian red; different proportions make different colours. Add caput mortuum to cool the red, or cinnabar to heighten it. A smaller room will concentrate the impression, while a larger room enlargens. Follow daylight.
pompeiian red, ultramarine and caput mortuum, second layer
Performing colour design and wall painting in a private home; Mats, my employer, keeps Nina Simone, Procul Harum, Joni Mitchell and The Band turning on the record player while I blend beeswax binder with pigments; Miles the cat is listening and watching.
This is colour exercise on a larger scale. At a certain point – by the third layer or so – colour becomes present in the room as a body of light, changing with time.
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For Joni Mitchell singing an experienced version of Both sides, now :
The old hammam at Akbιyιk Caddesi, Istanbul
Cleaning the house, cooking the food, laying the table. Waiting for the guest. Waiting is the guest.
fire escapes, Istanbul
We were invited to a wedding in Bursa, south of Istanbul. And so we went there. And the feast went on for three days and nights…
ladies’ henna night, the bride is dancing
…and before going home, Mona shared a bread with me. It is good to have friends. I wish you all enough.
breathe in/breathe out; wax crayons on paper, each app. 21 x 28 cms
“There is a way between voice and presence/where information flows.”
(Jelaluddin Balkhi, known as Rumi; english translation by Coleman Barks)
colour exercise; wax crayons on paper, app. 15 x 21 cms
Sigrid Winkler works with the students, studying metamorphoses in nature, while I attend another NUrope oasis. This time it is held in Åbo/Turku (Finland) and Stockholm, during five days. I do small colour exercises – another kind of metamorphosis – while listening to lectures and talks… and my focus is on the NUrope process itself, rather than the (interesting) subjects treated. Just like art, this is a self-defining learning process. Unlike the individual artist’s work, it involves quite a number of people. I listen and learn.
(see also page Nomadic)
calling Apollo; construction with armoury irons, dyed silk fabric, rope and thread, 5 x 5 x 2,5 metres
Finally, it’s there: a zikkurat (since one of us, Ayad, is of Iraqi origin) built in fairly cheap and easy-to-handle materials (since we couldn’t hire a thousand construction workers from Kuweit) to honour the honey-coloured light. It has been hard work, and pure joy.
greenhouse party
In the beginning of this week, we could welcome our friends back from Greece. We shared fruits and nuts from the Mediterranean as well as spiced yoghurt and honey from Järna and nearby, and had a good time. Since life constantly waltzes us around, not much of our work during the last weeks was actually on display this day. Some of it was exhibited elsewhere, some of it was left home and some was still in the process… and as a process, it was shared too.
Malin between felt and stone
