160705; graphite pencil on paper, 28 x 21 cms
drawing
Examination passed…
art, recent work, time-out
…and I’m free. Birds are still singing, sun is warm. Clouds passing. Future’s come. And, here’s the text (in Swedish, with English abstract):
Thinking Practises; the Artwork Reconstituted as Essay
160627; graphite pencil on paper, 28 x 21 cms
Grayscale Drawings II
art, grayzone, recent work
Two grayscale drawings; graphite on paper, c. 22 x 28 cms.
Grayscale Drawings I
art, grayzone, recent work
Three grayscale drawings; graphite on paper, c. 22 x 28 cms.
2015-03-30 Back in the Painting Studio
art, recent work
No. No more construction, perfection, restriction.
I stretch out upon the wall, waving my arms, breaking the thin circle. Suddenly, someone is there watching.
Finally, we’ve arrived.
2015-03-27 Back in the Painting Studio
art, recent work
Two days ago, a feedback session ending with a secret waffle party in the smithy… Today, things are jazzing me around: down goes the rag, up come the prints and the plates. It’s fun, but also frustrating; I cannot yet see what’s really going on.
2015-03-24 Back in the Painting Studio
art, recent work
Yes. And next, I add the copper plates used for intaglio print. And a rag I’ve been using to soak up surplus paint in my home studio. The painting is quite big, and so is the rag. 
2015-03-23 Back in the Painting Studio
art, recent work
This time, I needn’t draw the grid because I know it anyway. I concentrate on the circle (or close-to-circle, to be exact). One laborative space isn’t enough, I need three; but, in duplicating the circle, I realize the wall isn’t really big enough. Fine, I’ll make the circles overlap then. One for the metals, one for the prints. And the third one for a text, as a beginning.
2015-03-20 Back in the Painting Studio
art, recent work
Today is the second day of the Light Symposium, and the day of the spring equinox. And – remarkably – a partial solar eclipse is happening as well, at 11.00 am here in Stockholm. Grey clouds veil the celestial bodies, just enough so that everybody could follow the event with the naked eye. People crowd in the streets as the light dims. A passing shade, the sun disc turned into a crescent slowly rocking from left to right, a distant ship in the immense seas above us… then, it’s over.
A little later, I leave the symposium for the studio; leave lectures for artefacts.
2015-03-19 Back in the Painting Studio
art, recent work
The Lighting Department at the Royal Institute of Technology is hosting an international Light Symposium in Stockholm. In the morning, I attend together with a group of students and teachers from the Royal Institute of Art… and in the afternoon, I hurry back to school for another two weeks in the painting studio. Bringing back the metal plates, adding the litho and intaglio prints I’ve made in the meantime, nailing the plummet to the wall once more.
Mmmm-hmm.
Helena Hildur W. 