the code, lines and gathering

Elderberries are free around here. You simply walk up the hill and there they are, ripe and dripping off the trees along the old railway line. There is not much that can be had for free these days. I wash them, freeze them and make a most delicious elderberry crumble.

Inspired by the BBC's programme The Code and Tim Ingold's book Lines, I now see repetitive natural patterns and lines everywhere. Threads, traces, rods everywhere.

family picnic

The parental unit had both offsprings home for easter; the tropical weather and the desperate need for total withdrawel from the renovation project resulted in this unique event.

time was, time is

red

start dancing now

I too could start dancing...

box of wine

wrapping versus unwrapping

sunday series

stone carvings

I showed four of my stonecarvings at a recent art show (the Swedish Art Fair 2010) and had very positive response; in fact so positive that all four pieces were sold. It is very encouraging. The challenge is now to find space and time to create more carvings. My digital photographs do not show clearly the luminosity of the stone; some details pictured here.

used surfaces

Floor and wall surfaces well used; evidence of human behaviour. The exhibition of used finishing materials at the Belgian Pavilion  (Venice Biennale) confronts you with a sudden new awareness of how we leave our marks, how our lives are embedded in the patient silent materials that surround us on floors, walls, furniture.