Portrait build-up

A collection of my many portraits, that I've been making during this last school year.

VJ Fredløs at Vanguard

VJ Fredløs is back again! This time together with three DJ's at the club/diner Vanguard here in Oslo, Grünerløkka. We're developing the concept Djukeboks, where the guests can decide which song we're gonna play. Very challenging, because then I have no time to prepare myself. But thats part of the fun working as a VJ :) Here are some pics from earlier that night. 

BREAK / let's go into the wood

Printmaking! We made a field trip earlier this semester, me and a couple of friends from school. Fresh air, exiting prints and hot dogs from the grill.

Photo: Ameli Jakobsen 

Photo: Ameli Jakobsen

Back in the studio!

(No trees were harmed in the making of these prints)

Back on track!

Hello!!! As you may have noticed, I've been taking a break from the blogging life, but now I'm finally back! It came to a certain point where I just had too much work to do, and couldn't spend time blogging. Now the school year is over and I can look back on everything I've made during the year (and especially the last weeks), and make new plans for the summer. Yey!

Here are pictures from my exam, a drawing series with the title Fictional Memories. I spent a lot of time reading about memory, and how it is constantly being altered in accordance with later experiences. A phenomenon that Freud called "nachtraglichkeit" (afterwardness). As scientist Daniela Schiller says: "My conclusion is that memory is what you are now. (...) An altered story is also an altered interior life." Exiting, huh?!

(detail)

When I'm not in the mood...

...for "serious" work, or bother to make my own backgrounds, I just draw over other images. 

#typo #font

One of the school assignments that I'm working on at the moment is about font and typography. I have tried to develop my own style, based on my inspiration sources.

Below: "Football is also ballet" Different types of letters and style. Too many options! :)

The final result and some thoughts...

The final result after a long process.

My schedule is very hectic and always changing, and I'm so sorry for not having updated this blog in a while. So many assignments has to be done before easter, and I can't stop thinking about it, and it makes me exhausted. To make me even more stressed out: the final exam is starting right after the upcoming holiday.

Maybe I just have to be glad for all this work I've got. I have no specific plans after the school year is over, so I better be glad while it lasts, right? It's important not to loose the spark and enthusiasm, but it's hard being creative when you're super tired.

Poster Girl! / NISS Live

I'm making posters again! This time for a music event called: NISS Live. Find someone you like?

Stills from the stop motion film!

"Imagine that you are a rock, and that the rock is you". The title is (freely translated to English) from one of Tor Ulven's (1953-1995) poems.

I can't post the film itself here, but I can translate the script if you want to read :)