Blurry images

Ove — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:36:56 +0000

I followed a link this morning, to a photographer named Michael Donnor. There was an image from him published in B+W photography, earlier this year. It really captured me, it was like a dreamscape with a tree in a room with distorted walls, and in the corner stood a girl with the back towards the viewer. I do get excited by images like this, and there were many other images like this on the web site. It’s like they are being projected over an under-painting of non-spoken words. They seem to be there, right under the surface. Check him out.

Finale

Ove — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:08:58 +0000

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.

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Finale