WELCOME!

Everyone who has some free time is very welcome to visit my opening at galleri 8 in Sundsvall.

I hope you will come and join me.

paper cut dolls with a box locker, a necklace…

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porcelain teddy bears as twins in a brooch…

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porcelain ducks as twins in a necklace… one of my newest pieces…

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to my grandfather with love...

I dedicate this undone piece to my grandfather who in this hours struggle with the death.

I get a phone call from my mother today and she told me that the life is on the last chorus, my wish has been to see my grandfather once again before him past away, but the life didn’t want that to happen… I wish him a nice and painless journey to meet my grandmother after around 25 years been separate from each other.

I know that my grandfather has lived a good life and that he has been more or less in good condition for 94 years, so now it’s time to walk further… I also know that this is his wish.
I love and will always remember him.


Right now many thoughts going tow my mind, I have to get finish with my things for the exhibition in Sundsvall but right know I have all my thoughts and energy with my grandfather, the life stops up when you have to deal with facts...
What is necessary? How do you want to live your life?

To be remained of your own mortality… all the existential questions about life...

a new side and experience of a well known mobile artist…

I didn’t know that Alexander Calder also was making jewellery and that he started as a child making jewellery for his sister’s dolls…

Alexander Calder, född 22 juli 1898, död 11 november 1976, amerikansk skulptör och konstnär, även känd som Sandy Calder. Han är mest känd för sina mobiler. Förutom mobiler och stabila skulpturer har han gjort målningar, litografier, tapeter och designat mattor.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry and jewelry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Calder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY8HERFVJs4&feature=related

1)
Necklace, ca. 1938
Brass wire, glass, and mirror; Loop: 35 1/2 in.; flower: 8 x 8 in.
Courtesy Calder Foundation, New York

2)
Caged Crockery, ca. 1945
Silver wire and ceramic; Loop: 18 3/4 in.; element: 5 x 2 3/4 in.
Collection Harold and Emily Starr

3) The jewellery at the bottom; ”the Jealous Husband”

From;
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={2447333C-4D1D-4C74-9EED-62134307C209}

Norwegiancrafts.no...

Norwegiancrafts.no

Norwegiancrafts.no is an international online web magazine that presents Norwegian craft, art and design to an international audience.
Established in May 2010, as both a bi-monthly online magazine and as a continuously updated website, Norwegiancrafts.no aims at strengthening the position of contemporary crafts from Norway and stimulate exchange between Norwegian and international crafts professionals and institutions.

Crafts are generally classified according to the material that dominates in the artworks: ceramics, textiles, metal, glass and wood.

Editor-in-chief:
André Gali
andre.gali(at)norwegiancrafts.no

Editorial board:
Trude Gomnæs Ugelstad, Elisabeth Sørheim and Synnøve Vik
The project has been initiated by – and is owned by the Norwegian Association of Arts and Crafts (NK).


The photo is from the artist Christian Gonzenbach: Safari, 2007, earthenware

http://www.norwegiancrafts.no/

Sunday without sun...

A Sunday meeting with my friend Ingela and her lovely baby daughter Luna, we took a fika at Röda Sten, unlucky they had change owners and rebuilt the place and for me the soul was lost… to many squares for my taste, the only thing who was good was that they had open up for some windows.

I love the area of Röda Sten and as I have written many times before, I hope the city will keep it the way it is, ruff and for people to do what they want in/with the area.

I love the graffiti it’s a good spot for the rest of Gothenburg, to show creativity among young people.

Some new sculpture had been placed in the water a little bit further from the famous red stone in the same area… I don’t know the artist and I couldn’t find any name at the place…
I like it… In Swedish I had said; ”det du inte har I huvudet får du ha i benen…”

A great day, even if it was both cold and a little bit rain in the air, but with good friends everything is possible.

these make me think… 5 pieces for my needs…

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24 hour less...

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this made my day...

http://www.noovoeditions.com/NOOVO/weeklyreport/May2.html

just a thought - isn’t this to go a little bit too far?

This has nothing to do with jewellery, but may be the way to create them… to reflect at the society, to ask questions and work with the questions that show up.

This is something I don’t understand and in some how it occupied my mind, WHY do the companies want to create a deodorant that will protect you for 48 hours???

Am I the only one in the Nordic Europe who is thinking about this and how strange the promotion of this product is??? It feels that the company want to sell it out to us with the highest number they could use, it’s the same when companies use; started 100 years ago, or sometimes more… as it would be a better company or shop when the have all the years to lean on… I think that we as consumer in an over consumer society have to stop sometimes and ask our self, why and what am I buying and what do the company do to get me buying it.

I could understand if this was some product that wants to be selling out in some desert or some kind of water free area, or having with you on a long journey… But in the modern west, where we have water, we can take a shower or use a fresh wet wipe when ever we want and to be clean in our society is like a religion these days, which is waiting up to 48 hours to clean them self under the arms???
In my world I will never wait for cleaning me up until 48 hours, 12 hours may be and that’s also a very long time, and then I’m not dirty, just a feeling of not being so fresh any more…
I’m absolutely a product of the society I live in, but also I have my limits…

a bird dog…

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This is an explanation in Swedish; en påt “vingad” fågelhund is the title of this piece.
I don’t think this play with word is the same meaning if I use English, so I drop that…

faith…walking the right way...

Faith… today I’m so grateful for my friends and fellow jeweller Joanne Haywood and Janina Kurp…

Joanne post this nice lines who absolutely made my day and week, I get really touch when I read it, it was the nicest word I really needed at the time like this.
Thank you Joanne!
I’m also very grateful over the post of the invitation.

“My good friend and fellow Jeweller Paula Lindblom is showing new works at an exhibition in her hometown of Sunsvall. I wish I could be there to see it in real life! Paula's work is smart, funny and always made with integrity, shown in her ideas and materials.”

http://theneedlefiles.blogspot.com/

Janina Kurp visits me and had a look at all of my things, before the coming up exhibition, and she like it too.

A fika in my living room…

a brooch…

My newest pieces so far, Bambi /fawn of the roe deer clone into two…
We have to be wear of the nature.

does it make sense?!

Doubt is a word crossing my mind these days…
What am I doing, why am I doing it and will other appreciated my work, will my ideas been show up in my work?!

The ideas about the artificial or superficial over consumer society, packed in a shiny, colourful playful world of jewellery… Is it possible to see the seriousness in the shapes?

I see me little bit as a saver, I collect things from flea markets, things that not cost so much, things that other already used and are finish with, I collect things from the streets, things that people has dropped and from the nature, I buy glass beads and nylon thread and other material to connect and use in my work, to build new contexts with the material and to do it wearable or as window decoration when you don’t wear it.
The jewellery can easily turn into objects or the opposite, the objects become jewellery if you so wish…
I like to be curios and a finder’s keeper.

I doing jewellery both for woman and men, unisex is what I prefer, no limit of ages, no limit of gender, no limit of ethnicity.

To have or felt doubt is a part of the process, I know…
But it’s always even a an pleasured feeling when it turns up.


I’m not a believer, but I like the idea of it…

step by step...

It’s a lot of thoughts passing my mind when I doing these bead work, sometimes I think; patience other times I think; I’m mad doing this…
Every glass bead is added with a thought and also with curiosity and love… It’s some kind of therapy and navel-gazing over this method of working.

before it was a tree, now it could be someone’s nightmare…

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this is what I have longing for… just kids...

Finally after have been reading lines after lines of good review articles about one of my favourite singers, Patti Smith…
I order the book and today it arrived. NOW it’s my turn to read by myself.

not a strange feeling at all...

After having looking for strange creatures in almost 2 hours, I find my self being longer and thinner in a mirror at the movie place… Nice!
It was not a strange feeling at all, more or less natural after animal who talks, having seeing invisible cats and blue smoking caterpillars…

Alice in Wonderland...

This evening I was at the 3-D movie, Alice in wonderland… It was colourful and nice done and it was my first experience to see 3-D like this. I have been seeing it in the late 70th or early 80th, but then we had a green and a red glass in the glasses to experience the 3-D…

I love this, to look at a movie with a deep and a space that I haven’t experience before…
Now I am longing to see more of this kind.

I took my 3-D glasses with me home, as a remainder…

I got some new ideas about my work when I was looking at al the solutions in the movie, a nice inspiration source… but the biggest source of inspiration all time, is, the wizard of Oz, the original. I LOVE that movie, even if it’s not 3-D at all, but it isn’t necessary, it’s so amazing how ever.