Wickmanska Exhibition

Ok, so here will appear the picture's taken of my work hanging in Wickmanska in Lund.
Been rather quiet on the old blog I realise but I can assure all my loving fans that that will change shortly. Back to the bleak days of autumn now and inner musing of the mentally troubled always do tend to come back to the fore this time of year.

I am working on a new series of work at the moment in relation to the peak oil crisis, war and corporate control over our lives. There's a lot to take on there and at the moment it's difficult to formulate clear thoughts/images in this area because I just get so fckng ngry!

how and ever, here are the pictures of the exhibition which ran during October

Summer!

Not that one would ever know living here.

Any way, this is how the temptation is looking at the moment. i painted most of this in one afternoon. its lovely. its not finished but its lovely all the same. havent had the time or energy to paint on it since but i have finished a few pieces from my Double Pop Haiku series and update my website at http://www.konstilund.tk so that everything works now and you can see larger views of all the finished work.

got a few more ideas for some short video clips but ive been working a hell of a lot and i'm exhausted completly right now. perhaps i'll get started on them next week.

and finally for today

this is the very beginning of piece again based on the st anthony story. this is actually going to be more like the piece i originally intended the first time but which i decided against once i saw the canvas. this is on a board and while the other one is now simply called Anthony of Egypt, this one will be the actual temptation represented. it will take time but i have a definite plan. actually this board has a twin which i havent photographed at all yet (and this picture is obviously a partial view) but i'll get to that in the next few days. the pile of paintings is due a sort anyway and i've got a bit of framing to do.

peas

and here's some more

Just because i couldnt upload them in the last post for some reason. these are mostly jokey pieces but darkly and seriously so. they all need a few well selected areas of colour to complement the pure lines that are there right now. these are nice pieces to work on when the weather turns foul as it has this past week. as soon as the sun comes back i'll be out throwing paint again although i definitly think that this technique, which i have been working out on and off for about a year now is really going somewhere now and by the autumn i will probably have produced more pieces of quality in this style that the more traditional paintings which take forever to finish. of course the paintings are generaly a lot bigger... but we'll see how these ones grow too.

New Wave

These are some half finished and almost finished experimental collage type print thingys based on magazine photos of celebrities, advertising and fashion photos and such things. these pictures are a bit small i realise now, but i'll post better ones to my website when they're finished.

Stop. if you like

i didnt have much black because i'd used most of my small tube on these. they're a joke. hardyharhar you might remark when you first see them. they need a few more coats of paint to be finished but they wont really look different. a bit better just.

Wing

When my dearest darling girlfriend saw the wing in the bottom left of icarus she requested a painting of just the wing on a black background. now i'm not a big fan of using black in general and i only had a little bit in any case so the background ended up being a most pleasing layering of lots of colour to create what first seems black but is, i can assure you not. i really like this painting and unlike icarus which i've been working on since january, it only took three or four afternoons to complete. throwing paint in the sunshine again. wonderful

Icarus

So anyway, this is what it looks like now. i'm still working on the leg underneath but, since i'm not working very hard at it, i have no idea when it will be finished. thats the leisure i suffer.

Icarus

So anyway, this is what it looks like now. i'm still working on the leg underneath but, since i'm not working very hard at it, i have no idea when it will be finished. thats the leisure i suffer.

Where have I been??

I've been here. I've been working.
Now lets see... I've pretty much finished the icarus painting... maybe i'll put up a few of the older photos of it that arent up here first.



Ok, so these are in no particular order but as you can see... the legs were the hard part

Vi deo

yes we do. or are. or something.

i have in fact done a wee bit of painting since the last time i wrote here but not a hell of a lot i must admit. i've been on holiday you see visiting wonderful austria which is of course full of wonderful austrians like sevi and tina and eva and the wonderful whats-his-name, whose name i refuse to remember.
i also saw loads of interesting stuff in the few galleries i went to see. lots of actionism and fluxus and all that malarchy. and egon schiele of course.
i've almost finished editing my first video piece. its called "ösekund".
it will be shown in Panora in Malmö on the 12th of may. or so i am led to believe. between 11 at night and 3 in the morning. i like it. alternative locals rule the skool!

oh yeah

i nearly forgot, i finished this and submitted it to a spring salon exhibition here is town. should be interesting to get some kind of feed back .wow thats really blurry. ah well

since i'm in a poor humour

caused by tiredness and frustration at technology i'll cheer myself a bit by saying that i really really like this picture. you know what else? i made it

ages ago

and never one to waste a moment

i've also been working again on this, actually, i think you can see the whole evolution of this canvas here at http://www.seamusa.741.com/studio.htm on the disused wasteland of my old website. i'm thinking about calling it icarus. maybe my brother will want to buy it, since he owns the icarus painting i did in school. its a good theme

sketch

this is a sketchy self portrait i made a month or so ago which i've decided to incorporate into the st anthony painting

and back at the ranch

meanwhile, anto is back on the easel for one more shot at getting finished. he is reportedly very determined to do it this time.
a bit shakey there
and this is what it looked liked today. or maybe it was yesterday. im not sure

soup and balloons

So here we have the long awaited, by me at least, "who's afraid of soup, yellow and blue?" and the fourth in the series "who's afraid of red, yellow and balloon dog?". the paint.net photo editor has disappeared off this computer for some reason so all i could really do was rotate these images upright. therefore they are dark. i cant be bothered to rephotograph them at the moment either.

who's afraid of dirivitive post modern iconography?

so i made these lovely reflective paintings over the weekend, based on some drawings i did during the week. the one on the right is called "who's afraid of red, yellow and bananas?" and the left one is called "who's afraid of red, urinals and blue?" hahaha, i'm so clever. they are painted on plastic and at the moment have glass in front of them although seeing now how ridiculously reflective that is i may take it away befor hanging them. there is a definite third in the series on the way called "who's afraid of soup, yellow and blue?" but after that i'm sort out of ideas although i do intend to continue to develop this particular style of working, even these examples arent quite finished. and not at all finnish

vad betyder det?

so there we are. a nice blurry photo of what it looks like at the moment. mostly. im just slowly adding various blue washed to get the light effect right and afterwards i may tone down the blueness of it which makes it feel like it belongs in the bathroom. mostly i think it's just looking for attention

Redo

this past week, "mirror composition" jumped down off the wall demanding to be repainted and renamed and like totally reconceptualised man!

so now it it to be named "Vad betyder det? : on the pitfalls of postmodern ism"
or something like that. something clever sounding anyway

im totally pro crastination

yeah i am... st anthony is sitting in the corner facing the wall, thinking about what he's done. that'll learn 'm.

meanwhile, i have been painting on a smaller self portrait. called "self portrait on a chair" i probably wont bother posting updates on that one though since i'm using those images in a video project which i've begun in tandom with it.

yup, i'm peeking through the post modern curtain at last (having never been too fond of modernism anyway) and seeing whats on the otherside. phew! it still accepts my painting, just, but it also encourages a much broader use of medium. video could be expensive, but i think its essential to me right now.

i havent, by the way, decided to start using video because of any particular thing i've seen, frankly the video experiments i actually have been impressed by tend to be older but still beyond me.. but no, i actually just had an idea a few weeks ago and started jotting down "script" details immediatly and, well, this idea can only be a video. performance wont do it. paintings dont move etc etc.. so i started taping this week. i'm excited about the possibilities but at the same time, since i have no real experience in the medium, i have no real expectations as to what the finished product will look like.. its just more about the process.

otherwise, i laid up all the bits and parts i've collected for my "club golvet" piece and set them on a board. looked, poked and arranged in various ways, then put them back in the cup. i have a good idea now what else is needed so it should start coming together after easter sometime.

pee ass