A Danish-based artist, working with acrylics and transforming life experience into Pilgrims stories.
There is some drama in the word “transformation”. Radical changing, rising, falling, becoming the best copy of myself. That’s the way I live my life and that’s the idea of transformation, I want to express in my art.
As a symbolist, I chose Pilgrim as one of my symbols: a traveller who changes and transforms while wandering with the violin that is a symbol of everything he holds most dear in his life.
My interest in the character spurred me on making his figure out of modeling clay. He is far from perfect, with his big head he looks more like a fetus or a child, but he's my perfect guide to the fantasy world. I made other characters to populate his world, and when I need a new plot, I just start playing with them and imagining the next adventure they get into.
By emphasizing the changeability of my characters’ contours and features I express the variability of imaginary worlds and its creatures. Multilayering and transparency of layers serve the same purpose.
I try to slow down and catch time in the paintings by breaking up a second's movement into many frames and assembling them in one picture. So very often the many figures in one painting are actually one object or character flying, falling, or moving in space.
I use all artistic and expressive means to explore the archetype of the wanderer, pilgrim, traveller, who walks along the road of life to death, who appreciates every second of his fleeting life and remains inquisitive, open to new knowledge and new encounters.