- Welcome to my blog about this and that – ditt & datt in Swedish. The topics you'll find here are not always that general, though. You wont find anything on football, for instance. Moreover, all the light will most often be on photographs I made. In fact, if I tell something I find worthwhile telling, I usually stick a few of my photographs to the story. You could almost say this is about photography, and in a way you're right, it is. But it is also about what I see.
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There has been an exhibition at a gallery in Malmö that I have been longing to see since it was announced a few months ago. Despite the much I wanted to see it, I almost missed it. Last week was really the last, and me and Karin finally made it there on Saturday. Shown was work under the title ‘The last golden frog’, by the Swedish visual artist Helena Blomquist. The images are (digital?) photo montages, and in this particular series of images, monkeys plays a central role. The old film ‘Planet of the apes’ comes to mind but that isn’t why I enjoy her work. It’s rather the surreal environments she depicts, the dried out lakes, the silhouette of vegetation, and the monkeys in place of man. And that lonely frog, in the moonshine at that dry lake bed. I can’t tell why I was drawn to these images, but I suspect it is the dreamlike scenery and her use of a few characters, multiplied to populate the world. The monkeys look like cuddly toys, but their eyes don’t look very inviting, rather very tired. Striking work, that really should be experienced on big prints. The web images I have linked to are so small they really doesn’t make the originals any justice at all. I bought a book, though, so I could continue look at the images at home, although the size and print quality don’t made such an impact as the big prints did.