paula.lindblom

here I am among others…

2012-02-13T03:53:00.000-08:00

http://pinterest.com/mangomerle/contemporary-jewelry/

I found this site about contemporary art on Internet, I’m pleased that I am one of all the great jewellery artists there, some are my friends and some are colleges and friends and some I have no idea about yet, but I really really enjoy looking at other jewellery pieces. It’s so many nice, great and interesting jewellery pieces/artist out there, for inspiration or just for beautifulness.

Take a look, you can follow one image to other blogs, which is some of the best things with these media, the ring on the water effect, you start at one images and can come as far as you want in interesting and new directions.

18 feb... 12.00-16.00...

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exactly what I need right now…

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This is one of some other Christmas gifts that I got from my friend and college Joanne Haywood in Christmas time and now I use it as the coffeeholic I am…

I’m glad when friends know what I needed.

I’m not sure where this piece will be or fit in yet…

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ready for the show…

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from single elements to a ready piece, ready to wear…

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welcome!!!

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EVERY DAY – each day like the next, but not quite....

Humour, warmth and austerity – three words I associate with my jewellery.

I experience colour and shape in almost everything in my surroundings. There is inspiration to be found in everything - in a meeting, a shape, a feeling, a reflection, a movement, in a text and so on...
Nothing is too small and insignificant so as not to be taken seriously – everything has a meaning at any given time or place.

I make unique, wearable sculptural pieces of jewellery that are free-standing sculptures when they are not worn on the body.

The size of jewellery and the fact that it is worn on the body interests me and that is why I have chosen to work with jewellery as an art form.

I choose my materials from what I find around me, at home, on a walk or at a flea market... ideas and issues decide my choice of material.

What interests me is to give the materials new energy, to put materials and objects into a new context; jewellery, based on today’s consumer society.

I want the original materials to shine through, first I want the viewer to see and experience the piece of jewellery, but then at a second glance I hope the viewer recognizes the materials/objects I have used, life is revealed if you take the time, time past and present emerge into each other and create a new story.....

Translation by Eva Zethraeus

Photo; Sebastian Pommer

Model; Lina Fors

Thank you very very very much for you help Sebastian, Lina and Eva!

I’m so glad and happy for my helping friends who help me visuals an idea.

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Jewellery artist Paula Lindblom at gallery SINTRA in Gothenburg 18/2-13/3 2012

Opening Saturday 18thFebruary 12.00-16.00

SINTRA KONSTHANTVERK

Landsvägsgatan 5

413 04 Göteborg

Telefon: +46 031 775 0120

E-mail: info@sintra.o.se
http://www.sintra.o.se/

Monday-Friday 11.00-18.00
Saturday 11.00-16.00
Sunday closed

support from my niece Tova...

2012-02-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

I have been working and working for a very long time now and it’s amazing to get love letters from a little one that I really care about; it makes the offer so much more meaningful.

Eva Lindblad...

2012-02-11T13:14:00.001-08:00

I have my ways to Konstepidemin last weekend and I run into Eva Lindblads exhibition, it was a great and pleasure surprise, I like it a lot and would recommend it, if it has been going, but I have the opportunity to see it one of the last days.

Galleri Konstepidemin first exhibitions opened on Sat 14th January with Eva Lindblad
http://konstepidemin.blogspot.com/

14 jan–5 feb
Galleri Konstepidemin

Eva Lindblad - I ateljén viskar väggarna”En utställning med teckning och installation kring de bilder och tankar som kommer till mig i ateljén. Ateljén är det egna rummet både fysiskt och psykiskt. Där får tankar bilder och drömmar plats. Där råder en annan tid med utrymme för eftertanke, försök och till och med misslyckande. I ateljén sker det som annars inte hinns med. I ett liv med krav på effektivitet och framgång glöms ofta viktiga bitar bort. I ateljén hinner jag fråga mig vem jag är, där hinner jag möta mig själv.” Eva Lindblad

Guldhedens water tower...

2012-02-11T13:02:00.000-08:00

Afterwards we ended up at Guldhedens vattentorn and it hits me that the architecture almost came back or alive from some of Eva Lindblads drawings…
a strange feeling when 2-D meets 3-D.

I love these kinds of places where it felt like the time has been standing still for decades… I love the simplicity in an old good cup of coffee with out any curlicue.

I can tell that they have the smallest elevator in the whole world, we where two persons in it and if felt a little bite that one was enough.

http://www.guldhedstornet.se/

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

Var upp till Guldhedstornet förra helgen och blev glatt överraskad över att tiden stått still på ett väldigt påtagligt och fint sätt, sist jag var där var ca 15-16 år sedan när jag pluggade på KV konstskola, måste säga att i dagens flashiga och tillrättalagda ´värld´ så är det befriande med gammal hederlig oflärdig miljö. Hoppas att det fortsätter på det viset. Vill man ha mainstream kan man hänga på stan.

on my way to the Palmhouse…

2012-02-11T12:55:00.001-08:00

The Garden Society

Just a stones throw from the central station lies the Garden Society of Gothenburg. This is one of the best preserved 19th century parks in Europe, and is honoured by the Michelin Guide.

The Garden Society has plenty to offer for all the family - daily walks in the park, concerts, traditional festivities and theatre for the youngest members of the family.

http://www.tradgardsforeningen.se

the Palmhouse...

2012-02-11T12:29:00.000-08:00

Two weeks ago I was at the Palm house to look if it was possible to use the place for a photo session with model and YES it was as a paradise on earth, a perfect place for my artificially plastic jewellery that have the most inspiration from the nature. It was a cold sunny day and the atmosphere indoors almost hit me to want to cry over the silence, the warm and lovely rooms with al exotic plants, a stone throw from all the alarming city noises. I can recommend a trip to the garden Society, it’s is free of charge, this paradise place in the middle of the town is for free.

The Garden Society
Just a stones throw from the central station lies the Garden Society of Gothenburg. This is one of the best preserved 19th century parks in Europe, and is honoured by the Michelin Guide.
The Garden Society has plenty to offer for all the family - daily walks in the park, concerts, traditional festivities and theatre for the youngest members of the family.
The Horticultural GardensIn the middle of the 19th Century, gardening became more and more popular in Europe. Many new species were introduced from other parts of the world and plant breeding developed strongly. Horticultural associations were formed in many places in Sweden. The Garden Society of Gothenburg was founded in 1842 and is today one of the best preserved 19th Century parks in Sweden. It was declared a building monument in 1992.
The purpose of founding the gardens had two main objectives: to promote the spreading of horticulture and to create a popular meeting place. The Garden Society was one of Sweden’s leading plant nurseries at that time and, in order to promote social life, there were a number of bandstands, Schweizerei (a café licensed to sell wines and spirits) and other small houses.
Horticulture and bringing people together are just as important today. Here, you will find a very diverse range of plants with among other things, a Rose Garden, exotic plants in the Palmhouse, an impressive collection of trees, perennials and annuals, as well as an agave and a cactus planting. Restaurants and cafés, musical arrangements, theatrical performances, seminars, seasonal parties and many other things make the park hustle and bustle throughout the year.

The Palmhouse
The Palmhouse appeared in Gothenburg in 1878 like a gigantic puzzle made of cast iron and glass. In this splendid building of almost 1,000 m² you will be bewitched by natural beauty from all corners of the world.
The Palmhouse building contains five sections with different climates: the Camellia house, the Mediterranean house, the Palmhouse, the Tropical house and the Water house which contains the Giant Water Lily, grown from seed each year, and a fine collection of bromeliads.

http://www.tradgardsforeningen.se

please… what where you thinking of?

2012-02-11T12:14:00.000-08:00

I don’t like these three colour shift men either, Jaume Plensa from Barcelona is the artist.

http://jaumeplensa.com/

I don’t know how the municipal politician was thinking? To raise three men 12 meter up in the sky, with the idea of the Buddhist apes in lotus pose, not seeing, not hearing, and not speaking. May be it’s a good sign I Japan, but in Sweden, I don’t know…

Hallo, this is Sweden 2012 and our city has been expose for so many bribe scandal that ordinary people and workers has seeing and told the others of us citizen, how has it looks if they had been sitting on the high horses saying nothing?

I’m also having some problem with the norm; the man… We try our best to be equal and then I have to see three men on a pedestal every time I past Drottingtorget and it am also what all the visitors that arrive to Gothenburg with train will see as one of the first things these days.

a morning from the tram window…

2012-02-11T12:09:00.000-08:00

Finally the wheel is gone, now it’s just a memory… I never like this attraction.

ready... the final result...

2012-01-29T04:20:00.000-08:00

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ready...

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ready...

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two ideas...

2012-01-29T04:17:00.000-08:00

I have new ideas, but I’m not sure about the time…

idea...

2012-01-29T04:15:00.000-08:00

I have new ideas, but I’m not sure about the time…

just an idea… this is nothing yet…

2012-01-28T07:51:00.000-08:00

A tamarind and a pair of earrings, some kind of left over that I got from a friend…
I saw the shape of a small animal in the tamarind and when I add the “wings” I think it gets a little bite clearer, but right now I have no idea were it will fit in and if I will use it and what it will be in the end, a brooch or a necklace??? No idea at all but me likes the attitude of it so far…

kill your darlings…

2012-01-28T07:48:00.001-08:00

I try to find some interesting with these pieces, but I believe that they don’t fit together very well; it’s to over done…

united colors of benetton...

2012-01-28T07:41:00.001-08:00

I saw this window-dressing down town and I have to say that I like when stores make some more out of the display that they have… This is hard to see that it is a store for clothes, but as always united colors of benetton use more or less dramatic ideas to show and sell…

broken…

2012-01-28T07:38:00.000-08:00

A wood ring...
Irritated, when I found something that I like to wear… it broken.

sometimes I like to see what’s happen… if I do…

2012-01-28T07:33:00.001-08:00

Just playing and having fun… bug eyes and paint and an old useless brush.

It’s nothing serious about this at all, more a play with things in another way that I do with my jewellery creations… But I have to say that I like the result any way, but I have no idea what to use it for, more then I already said, just for fun…

some of my new pieces – another bottle brooch…

2012-01-28T07:32:00.000-08:00

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some of my new pieces in different angles…

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Atalante at Monday 23rd...

2012-01-28T07:17:00.000-08:00

Program drop for the spring 2012 at Atalante at Monday 23rd … an amazing window show by FRAUKE- endangered. I look forward this dance event 4-9/5. I absolutely hope that I have the possibility to see it then.

It was some tastes from the spring program and it ends up with a cake party.

A great evening!

http://www.atalante.org/

street art in my hoods…

2012-01-28T07:13:00.001-08:00

Bangatan in Majorna… unlucky the commercial forces don’t like this kind f signs in the public space so they have add advertising signs over this amazing creativity, a message so much better the coca cola and other crappy things....

just a parenthesis...

2012-01-28T06:59:00.000-08:00

Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera and Jan Lööf – bildmakaren/ illustrator at Göteborgs konstmuseum.
http://www.goteborg.se/wps/portal/!ut

I think this exhibitions was a little bite too expensive, I don’t like when art turn into “finkonst” – art for rich people and not for the working class citizen, when I pay this ticket, not even the year annual commutation ticket at 40 Skr include. I ask the once at the museum why it was so expansive and the answer was- it cost to arrange this two exhibitions.
I wonder if it wasn’t an idea of thinking of to search for some kind of scholarship from the government or the municipality.

It was nice to see these two exhibitions but I have to say that I didn’t’ thank it was worth the money.

Torsten Jurell - beyond the lower world at Röhsska museum...

2012-01-22T09:23:00.000-08:00

We had the opportunity to listen and join an interesting speech and a guided tour about Torsten Jurells art by one of the workers at Röhsska museum, how he come up with the sculptures and his ideas behind, very very interesting and also very nice pieces.
It’s always nice to get”behind” the ideas and thoughts of art pieces; it gives the art a deeper sense and enlarge understanding.

I get trapped by the story about the cockroach girl.

Torsten Jurell works in the field of sculpture, painting and graphic art. He exhibits continuously since 1976 in Sweden and abroad. His works are featured in private and public collections across Europe, China and the U.S.A.

THE SCULPTURES are mostly in wood, clay, stone, paper, metall - casted in bronze, aluminum and glass .

http://www.jurell.com/en

http://www.jurell.com/sv/category/subpages/blogg

the Chinese New Year...

2012-01-22T09:12:00.000-08:00

It was four lovely children that performed with Chinese songs, adorable!
It was some dumpling making and paper pottering as a workshop, and in a corner you could tuck up origami.

Helgen bjuder på drakfest och ballongdesign!

LÖRDAG OCH SÖNDAG, 21 OCH 22 JANUARI FIRAR VI DUBBELT:Kinesiskt nyår och invigning av Barnkulturåret! Det blir allt från provsmakning av dumplings till ansiktsmålning med fri entré hela helgen.

Söndagens program:2012 ÄR DRAKENS ÅRVi firar det kinesiska nyåret. Ta reda på vilket kinesiskt djurtecken du tillhör och vilka egenskaper djuret har. Gör din egen lampskärm i drakens tecken och följ med på en visning av Torsten Jurells utställning ”Bortom Underjorden”. Lyssna till journalisten och författaren Agneta Engqvist som berättar om kinesernas grundliga nyårsfirande.

Träffa Yan Zhang som kommer från norra Kina. Hon älskar att laga äkta nordkinesisk mat och började laga mat redan som 9-åring. Hon visar och lär ut konsten hur man lagar äkta nordkinesiska DUMPLINGS. Givetvis bjuder hon även på smakprov.12–16 Kocken Yan Zhang pratar om Dumplings12–13 Agneta Engqvist berättar om kinesernas grundliga nyårsfirande och skildrar kinesernas fascination för de tolv djuren i månkalendern. 13 Visning av Torsten Jurells utställning Bortom Underjorden12–16 Workshop

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The Chinese New Year, the dragon’s year… my animal in the Chinese tradition is the horse and my year will be 2014.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiskt_ny%C3%A5r

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

Here you can read about the 12 Chinese zodiac animals… and the 5 elemets
råtta
oxe
tiger
hare/kanin
drake
orm
häst
får/get
apa
tupp
hund
Gris/Vildsvin

Metall (Chinese: 金, pinyin: jīn)
Trä (Chinees: 木, pinyin: mù)
Vatten (Chinees: 水, pinyin: shuǐ)
Eld (Chineese: 火, pinyin: huǒ)
Jord (Chinees: 土, pinyin: tǔ).

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesisk_astrologi#De_tolv_kinesiska_zodiakdjuren

The 5 classical planets are associated with the Wu Xing:

· Venus—Metal (White Tiger)
· Jupiter—Wood (Azure Dragon)
· Mercury—Water (Black Tortoise)
· Mars—Fire (Vermilion Bird) (may or may not be associated with the phoenix which was also an imperial symbol along with the dragon)
· Saturn—Earth (Yellow Dragon)

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

some interiors…

2012-01-22T09:11:00.001-08:00

Röhsska is a beautiful museum/house with a lot of interesting views and angles…

http://www.designmuseum.se/

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hsska_museet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hsska_Museum

cocktail...

2012-01-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

In a lovely room far behind from all the other art at Röhsska museum, I found the pupils work from Nääs Hantverk & Design, it is a little bite pity that the museum hasn’t add some sign to this exhibition, I had to ask in the reception where the exhibition were and I heard some of the visitors say that this is an empty room and didn’t take the steps into the room to see that it include a small exhibition.
For me this is a typical Röhsska museum thing, to be unclear where the exhibition is and who has done the art.

http://www.lerum.se/hd

shit happen and hopefully something good comes out of it…

2012-01-21T06:29:00.000-08:00

Today our “hope” for the social democratic politician Håkan Juholt take off in a 3 minute short press conference, a good act I think but the idea of take off and leave the post is not the solution for the social democratic party they need to take care about the grass roots voters, they need to take a step out of the glass bubble they have been in a long time, they need to take care of the Swedish People's Home that Sweden long time ago has been known for…

Populistic politic is not the solution, the solution is to see and take care and speak up for the once that have a weak voice in our society.

Now we have to wait and see what’s happen…
Are the social democrats parties just a memory in Sweden?

The “problem” with the social democrats is in deeper shit then a team leader, they need a clear and direct line of policy.

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2012-01-21T06:08:00.001-08:00

This is me today, no feet on the ground and my head in the grey (not blue…)
Like a balloon I fly over my coming up jewellery and ideas…

wintertime...

2012-01-21T06:04:00.000-08:00

A room with a view…
Today I wake up very late to a snowy view.
I’m glad that I have planned an indoor day with jewellery work.

THANK YOU!!!

2012-01-21T06:03:00.000-08:00

A Christmas gift that has been on drift, I got these lovely gifts from my friend and college Joanne this week… THANK YOU Joanne!

work in progress…

2012-01-21T06:02:00.000-08:00

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Emily Cobb...

2012-01-21T05:59:00.001-08:00

Sometimes you find things in the cyber space that you can’t ignore; this is some of these pieces, when you have seen them you will remember them for ever…

I like these pieces very very much, they are very organic in an artificial way, can’t be better.

I like the idea of usefulness and fairytale in one piece… mixed with an idea of the nature.

Info about Emily Cobbs

Where do you live ? City, State and Country
Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Work ? Example: Studio, College, Gallery, Museum, ...)
Studio

I am a .... Example: Student, Maker, Educator, etc.
Graduate Student at Tyler School of Art

http://emily-cobb.com

Describe your media/materials you work with
jewelry, metals, mixed media, plastic, other
If "other" - what media do you work with?
CAD-CAM

http://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/EmilyCobb

bunnylicious...

2012-01-14T14:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.bunnylicious.org/

This is one of my absolute favourite blog, all categories… look for your self, it’s so many great ideas with bunny’s in art in all the ways you can imagination and more on…

a porcelain duck in a plastic can…

2012-01-14T14:20:00.002-08:00

Soon it’s my turn to show my things… now I have to work…
This is one of my last pieces.

the cat pipe of today...

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fika...

2012-01-14T14:15:00.000-08:00

Today I ended my day down town with a “fika” with and old friend, it’s always nice to see old friends and have a small talk, friends that know more or less everything about you, friends that you can be quiet with or talk about serious thing knowing that it stay there… to be secure and comfortable.

vi köper det inte - we don’t buy it...

2012-01-14T14:12:00.000-08:00

“We don’t buy it”, a sign in my hoods, I LOVE when people reclaim the streets and the public space and add their own sing, there the commercial are the advice, were the money rules…

Some signs on my way…

FOUR at gallery Sintra...

2012-01-14T13:55:00.000-08:00

I was there among a lot of other visitors to have a look and say hi to the jewellery artists, I like a lot of the jewellery and I have to recommend you to stop by and have a look if you have the way by…

I wish you all FOUR a great exhibition and as many as possible will stop by.

Hanna Liljenberg was my absolute favourite at this exhibition, I like the beautifulness in the repetitive and fragile but also the more or less solid feeling and the choose of material, it don’t look as paper at all and the shapes are so structural that you think that she picked them directly from the nature.

sintra
presenterar
FOUR
14 jan - 14 feb 2012

Four drivs av Malin Lövgren, Karin Roy Andersson, Ellen Jacobsen Holvik och Hanna Liljenberg. Det är en mötesplats för samtida smyckeskonst och utgörs av galleri, butik och verkstad i Linné, Göteborg. Planerna på en gemensam framtid utvecklades under studietiden på Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk och 2010 startade verksamheten.
Four vill visa unika smycken av hög hantverksmässig kvalité som berör.

Malin Lövgren
Med passion för traditionellt hantverk och nya tekniker skapar jag mina smycken. Med kontraster, färger och materialval söker jag ständigt utmaningar och nya kreativa vägar. Smycken måste vara övertygande. De måste vara vältaliga och suggestiva. Det är den andan jag ständigt försöker ingjuta i mina exklusiva och tidlösa smycken.

Karin Roy Andersson
"The joy of repetition really is on me" - Hot Chip
Jag är en långdistanslöpare med en passion för upprepningar. Att gång på gång metodiskt och målmedvetet repetera en rörelse är något som präglar min personlighet och mitt arbete.
Jag fascineras av mångfald, mönster och rytmer. Likartade element som fogas samman och skapar balans. Min strävan är att skapa smycken där de små variationerna mellan byggstenarna formar en dynamisk helhet.

Ellen Jacobsen Holvik
Det jag fascineras av är det icke omedelbara, det är ingen figur som du snabbt kan avläsa utan du måste stanna upp och låt dig titta, fundera, ta dig tid. Det tar tid att undersöka och det tar tid att titta på det till synes enkla. Vi har så mycket information och budskap runt om kring oss - vi matas med det snabba och konkreta, nästan som om det ska vara snabbt och konkret endast för att vi ska hinna matas med ytterligare information. Dessa ständiga intryck kan blockera de inte så uppenbara sakerna. Missar vi sådant som kanske är viktigt för oss? Jag vill ge min betraktare tid att få vila i något. Du måste stanna upp, öppna dina sinnen och din tankevärld. Jag vill att du ska kunna återkomma till mina smycken, finna nya intressanta vinkar och inte direkt tröttna. Som om det finns något där som du kan utläsa mellan raderna.

Hanna Liljenberg
Mina växtliknande faner och papperssmycken är i kollision mellan det organiska och det stelt konstruerade. Det är den enskilda formen och upprepandet av denna som är arbetets konceptuella förutsättning. Med sin bräckliga skärpa kräver smycket bärarens närvaro och jag tilltalas av att du måste anpassa dig efter vad du bär.

finn fem fel, eller åtminstone ett... the Ferris wheel will be moved...

2012-01-14T13:41:00.000-08:00

The wheel will be removed from the city to Liseberg the amusement park here in Gothenburg, so therefore it’s no suspended seats at the Ferris wheel, right now it looks like a big bicycle wheel.

I didn’t believe that they (the politics) actually want to move this Ferris wheel, even if they promise the (us) citizen it, that it would be on the spot of today for two years and then they would move it… My thought was that the politics hope that we all had forget and or get used to this wheel when the times come… But as I and you can see, they have started to pick it down.
I never thought that this was a unique idea to add Gothenburg at the map; we have a lot of nicer thing to show instead of this mainstream wheel.

silversmideselever från Hantverk & Design på Nääs fabriker....

2012-01-14T13:36:00.000-08:00

Before I sometimes work at this school, now I’m happy to get invited to a exhibition at Röhsska museum and see what the new pupils has come up with.

http://www.lerum.se/hd

I hate to learn by mistake when the time is limit…

2012-01-09T04:41:00.000-08:00

Hours of work for no good, or?!
You learn by your mistakes…

When idea fails, that’s life too, but it’s annoying when it happen…

The time isn’t with me this time and it disturbs me a lot.

A idea that looks great in your mind but in reality it turn up as nothing… this two pieces will go to the “garbage – try out dump” and stay there till I come up with something else for them, kill your darlings is not always a good idea… but if you don’t try you will never find out what’s happen, or?!

Anne Larsson...

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hope to see you there!

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18/2-13/3 2012

Happy New 2012!

2012-01-08T10:49:00.001-08:00

Now we have 2012.
I look forward this year and the feeling I have is that it will be a great year…

I wish you all a great and good 2012.

I will limit my blog posts this year or at least the fist months of this year, it’s a lot of things to do with exhibitions, bead and butter work, hanging around with friends more then I did last year, travel and exercise, take long walks and go to the gym.

What I know right now I have three exhibitions to work for/with and also look forward too… The first one is a solo exhibition. Var dag - at gallery Sintra here in Gothenburg, then I have another solo exhibition in Turku, Finland and later on I and Eva Zethraeus will show our collaboration.

Right now I have my doubts and wonder what I am working with, do I have something to show? Want someone see my jewellery made by every day plastic mixed with a lot of small glass beads?! I know that this is a feeling that comes up every time it gets closer to the show time. I have to work practical and mental with my jewellery and myself, but that is a part of the creativity I suppose?!

on the other side...

2012-01-08T10:44:00.000-08:00

Sundsvall, water line in the middle of the night waiting for an old year to be a New Year…

On the other side of the sea you can see Sundsvalls nigh lights reflect in the water.

home made meringue...

2012-01-08T10:35:00.001-08:00

When my dad have birthday this autumn, me and my sister bought him a ice-cream machine, and now when he make ice-cream the white of an egg is left, you just use the egg yolk, so I made meringue by the white of an egg.
We had them at the New Year Eve, for dessert; meringue swiss.

in the track of Dagmar…

2012-01-08T10:19:00.000-08:00

Me and my dad took a car ”walk” around our island Alnö, then my sister and I took the car and have a look and then I took a walk by my own and saw all the devastation in the force of Dagmar, at Alnö it was hurricanes and storm the night between 25 and 26th of December…

It’s unbelievable that no more houses was hit by trees, many household was out of heat and water for some hours or days…

When you walk in the forest it felt like the nature has play spillikin with the trees.

Tova and I... Merry merry Christmas!

2012-01-08T10:15:00.000-08:00

Tova and I dress the Xmas tree, the dinner table at Christmas Eve…

Christmas Eve...

2012-01-08T10:13:00.000-08:00

Taking care and lighting up the graves, thinking about the grandparents, here is my dad at Christmas Eve…

Alnö...

2012-01-08T10:06:00.001-08:00

A winter walk… and woodpecker, roe deer, a big cat and snow and sun… a perfect Christmas time.

22nd December - Christmas holiday...

2012-01-08T10:00:00.000-08:00

22nd December, my way to my childhood home, Sundsvall/Alnö in the North of Sweden at the east cost…

I got some snow this Christmas, and it started on my trip, here is some photos from the train window.

best wishes to you all...

2011-12-17T06:08:00.000-08:00

önskar / best wishes

Paula

third Advent…

2011-12-11T12:34:00.000-08:00

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just a try out, to get a feeling…

2011-12-11T12:32:00.000-08:00

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Sintra...

2011-12-11T12:27:00.001-08:00

Gill Marshall and Vilma Velasques...

Gill Marshall
Anna Ulin

Today I took a walk down town and stopped by at Sintra, there I meet Vilma Velasques and Gill Marshall.

http://www.vilmavelasquez.se/

http://www.sintra.o.se/

http://sintrakonsthantverk.blogspot.com/

Charlotta Eidenskog...

2011-12-11T12:15:00.000-08:00

Charlotta Eidenskog, at Gallery Two Little Birds, Andra Långgatan 5, Göteborg
A colourful and playful exhibition until 14 December.

http://www.charlottaeidenskog.com/

http://www.twolittlebirds.se/

”Jag befinner mig på en högre höjd och blickar ner över staden, människorna och livet. Belyser och zoomar in och saker blir helt plötsligt tydligare för mig. Jag ser skeden och situationer som uppstår i livet. Relationer och sammankopplingar människor emellan. Mönster och rytmer i vardagen, både på gott och ont. En strävan att hitta en balans i det lilla men också i det stora.
Från en högre höjd är reflektioner och betraktelser om att befinna sig mitt i livet.”

Charlotta Eidenskog tog sin masterexamen från Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk 2008 och är verksam i Göteborg. Leran är hennes huvudmaterial och hon arbetar med den rinnande till hård för att utnyttja dess olika egenskaper och uttryck. Hon använder sig av olika ytbehandlingar såsom glasyr, lack, sprayfärg, målarfärg och pigment.

I utställningen Från en högre höjd har hon plockat in en växtlighet i sina arbeten genom att doppa riktiga växter i lera. Lager på lager av lera reducerar växtens egentliga form och något nytt uppstår. De nya formerna har Charlotta sedan använt sig av på olika sätt.

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Jazzå has turn into a sport bar…

2011-12-11T12:11:00.000-08:00

A new view, … This was one of the places I was visit before…
Now it’s new owners and new direction; sports bar and before it was it a jazz bar.

the same Street…

2011-12-11T12:09:00.001-08:00

Stigbergsliden 1939 and Stigbergsliden today 2011-12-11.

down town...

2011-12-10T12:21:00.000-08:00

Brunnsparken

This evening down town on my way home from the Christmas fairs...

Röhsska and HDK...

2011-12-10T12:11:00.001-08:00

Röhsska and HDK Christmas fair, the last fairs for me this winter… Now I’m filled with creativity, art and Christmas feeling.

RÖHSSKA Karin Roy Andersons jewellery...

Anki Eklund...
Anki Eklund and Karin Ageliis fantastic reflex brooches, made as jewellery for outerwear, I bought one, I bought one last year too…
www.reflexfabriken.se

HDK
A great day with a lot of nice meetings with friends and colleges…

Ditte Johansson...

2011-12-10T11:55:00.000-08:00

Ditte Johansson - fabric glass… absolutely beautiful and a lovely fragile feeling.
If you have the time to stop by at Röhsska museum, do it!
The exhibition in going on to 29 January 2012.

Konsthantverksstafett #12Textilt glas av Ditte Johansson

Textilt glas är en egen teknik som Ditte Johansson har under ständig utveckling. Glasullen bearbetas med olika textila tekniker, därefter bränns den i glasugn, tills allt förutom glasmassan i ullen försvinner bort i processen.Ditte Johansson är utbildad i textil konst på Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk i Göteborg. Sedan 1999 har hon uteslutande arbetat med glas och deltagit i ett flertal workshops och kurser inom glasgjutning med varm- och kallglas, flamework, experiment på planglas, fusing, glasmåleri med mera."Man kommer inte undan Ditte, det finns en berättelse i varje verk som berör.Jag ser spår av liv, skönhet, skörhet och handens närvaro känns påtaglig." Så uttalar sig föregående stafetthållare, Thomas Brolin, när han passade stafettpinnen vidare till Ditte Johansson.
I och med #12 avslutas stafettkonceptet i sin nuvarande form, men det samtida konsthantverket kommer även i fortsättningen att vara en viktig del av Röhsska museets program.Utställningen pågår till 29 januari 2012.

http://www.glasakademin.se/konstnarer/ditte-johansson/

hurricane and overflow…

2011-12-10T11:54:00.001-08:00

Yesterday it was a very very rainy and wind day and night, it was hurricane and bridges was closed, the water was rise a lot and we got a lot of overflow here in Gothenburg and also a lot of water and wind in my old hoods Sundsvall…

When I took the tram home after work yesterday it was traffic queue from the hoods that I work until the city, I try to take a photo from the tram to catch the chaotic feeling of coming nowhere with car this evening…

The man in the water is a photo from internet, the Gothenburg harbour.

a small notice in the newspaper today and BIG happiness…

2011-12-08T12:34:00.000-08:00

Kvibergs market will still be an oasis to visit, Kvibergs market will be there!

Thank you, Thank you all the opinion and politics that have made it possible, thanks too all of you that saw the possibilities and the good forces to have a market as that left in Gothenburg.

invitation from my friend and college Maja Breife…

2011-12-08T12:27:00.000-08:00

Hop hop!

Galleria Jänis is a non-profit windowgallery on Jarrumiehenkatu in Turku, Finland. We are located very near to the railwaystation.

Xmas market will be held on 10th and 11th of December. There´s glögg, gingerbread, art, jewellery, surprisepackages etc.

Gallery is open unofficially from 1.12. with a Christmas calender show updating daily but the first official exhibition will take place on 30.12. with Janne SIltanen show.

cheers, Hansu, Maja & Jänis

http://www.breife.com/

In spring time 2012 I will show jewellery at this gallery…

Karin Roy Andersson among others at Röhsska Christmas fair...

2011-12-08T12:19:00.000-08:00

Karin Roy Andersson

http://www.karin-roy.se/

JULFORM – allt annat än en vanlig julmarknad!

I HELGEN 9–11 DECEMBER är det dags för julmarknad på museet!
Botanisera bland udda, välgjorda och roliga julklappar av 31 verksamma inom formgivning, konsthantverk och slöjd.
Varje timme finns möjligheten att lära sig japansk paketinslagning och på söndagen kan man njuta av skönsång från Göteborgs lucia med tärnor.
Bara runt knuten, i samma hus, pågår också HDKs julmarknad.

Öppettiderna är fredag kl 16–19, lördag och söndag kl 11–17.

JULFORM är en arena för verksamma formgivare, konsthantverkare och slöjdare i juletid. Arrangemanget Produceras av Julforms produktionsgrupp (Cecilia Pettersson, Kristin Bille och Karin Strömberg) i samproduktion med Röhsska museet, Konsthantverkscentrum, Slöjd i Väst, Svensk Form Väst, ADA, Julstaden Göteborg och Gränna polkagriskokeri.

http://www.designmuseum.se/

I’m not there yet…

2011-12-07T04:16:00.001-08:00

Var dag or every day, is the issue for the coming up exhibition…

I’m not there yet…

2011-12-07T04:14:00.000-08:00

Var dag or every day, is the issue for the coming up exhibition…

I think it start with hailstone and then it turns into snow…

2011-12-06T02:14:00.001-08:00

Today... some snow left...

Time when it start snowing...

The first snow this winter… last winter we had a lot of snow, but it’s still a very very mildly and warm winter here in Sweden and the snow have been lightning with non-attendance so far… I think it more or less the same in other places where you expect snow in other parts of Europe too; no snow so far… may be we all get a green Christmas.

second Advent…

2011-12-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

The time goes very very fast these days… soon it’s Christmas and a “happy” new year…

Konstepidemin Saturday 3rd of December…

2011-12-05T05:40:00.000-08:00

The Christmas fair at Konstepidemin Saturday 3rd of December…

As I have written many times before, I like Konstepidemin a lot, the atmosphere and the generous artist that work there…. For a day like this with open studios and things for sale for a nice price it takes some days for the artists to arrange and then be open minded and take care of the visitors, time that they can’t work with their own things… I think the artist are doing a great job to invite us to their studios and workshops and let us all be a part for awhile, talking about their work and the ideas behind and what it could lead to in the end…

I thank you once again for great meetings and I wish you all at merry merry Christmas up at the Konstepidemi area.

I bought some lovely ceramic sculptures this day, from the ceramic artist Karin Östberg, I love her ceramic pieces and I’m happy for the once that I bought!
(in the end of the post is the pieces…)

http://www.konstepidemin.com

http://konstepidemin.blogspot.com/

This was the artist that me and my friend Agneta visit this day…

http://www.oestberg.blogspot.com/

http://www.bibbiforsman.se/

http://www.lanmark.se/

http://www.konstepidemin.com/konstnarer/kerstinsarvimaki.htm

http://www.helendahlman.se/

http://www.konstepidemin.com/konstnarer/elisabeteriksson.htm

http://www.sverkereklund.com/

the evening, 1st of December...

2011-12-05T03:03:00.001-08:00

Kulturlabbets opening at VSA.

Opening at the evening 1st of December, mingle, performance and some chip.
A successful evening I think, the artist was satisfied and I was grateful for the visitors and the nice performance and all the great paintings that we have the opportunity to show until the 10th of January 2012.

The VSA gallery is open; 13-16 Monday to Thursday

Karl Johans gatan 22b

I hope you will have time to stop by the gallery, before Christmas…
May by to buy some lovely art?! If you buy some of the paintings, you can bring it at the 20th of December.

http://www.kulturlabbet.se

http://www.vsa-sweden.org/

coming up; HDK Christmas fair…9-10-11/12…

2011-12-05T02:26:00.000-08:00

HDK Christmas fair…9-10-11/12…

Kort och affischer på transsexuella drottningar från sagovärlden, accessoarer som flugor gjorda i trä, stickade kalsonger och smycken av plast. HDK:s studenter säljer unika produkter på sin julmarknad 9-11 december.

Inför dopparedagen: kom över till julmarknaden på HDK – Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk, Göteborgs universitet.
Studenter inom design, smycke-, textil- och keramikkonst säljer handgjorda produkter som de själva har skapat. Här finns allt möjligt du kan ge bort och kanske också sådant du önskar att få?

Du kan till exempel hitta screentryckta tolkningar av Shakespeares ”Stormen”, ringar slunggjutna i silver och av textil. Det finns också unika broderier att fästa på kroppen, slipsar sydda av gamla juldukar, julgransdekor i ull, lampskärmar, mönster att följa, snurror, träpussel, - och mer därtill! Blir benen trötta? Slå dig ned och avnjut en fika i skolans café. Julmarknaden arrangeras av Konstkårens HDK-sektion.

H ändelserik

D opparedagsförväntan

K ära

J uletid.

U tan stress!

L åt

M änniskorna

A lla

R ofyllas.

K om över

N ågot

A tt

D ela med någon.

Datum och tider för HDK:s julmarknad 2011 är:
Fredag 9/12: kl 16.00-19.00
Lördag 10/12: kl 11.00-17.00
Söndag 11/12: kl 11.00-17.00

Plats:
HDK — Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk, Kristinelundsgatan 6-8, Göteborg
http://www.hdk.gu.se/sv/nyheter/2011/hdks-julmarknad

invitation from Dana Hakim...

2011-12-05T02:24:00.000-08:00

Dear All,
YOU are cordially invited to an opening of Forma vs. Materia - Volume
3, the annual exhibition in Galleria Cristiani, Turin.

Since 2009, The gallery makes a raid into contemporary jewelry by showing an innovative selection of European artists, with a specially created set-up.

Warmest regards
Dana

http://danahakim.com/

underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor...

2011-12-05T02:20:00.000-08:00

Underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor

One of my absolutely favourite sculptures… I hope to see his art pieces in real life some day, would be great.

I love the sculptures of human that he place in water, the bomb sculptures is for me more of a comment of the world of to day during the human are more as fairytales for me, a little bite like the idea of Platons Atlantis.

http://www.jasondecairestaylor.com/index.asp

I love to look at these underwater pictures, it takes me far from the grey Sweden and the Christmas time that coming up next… the pictures helps me dreaming, dreaming of a warm bath in a country far from Sweden…

Liseberg...

2011-11-28T10:19:00.001-08:00

Varde ljus och det har det varit ett tag nu…

I past Liseberg, Gothenburg’s famous fair-ground this evening and it’s amazing with all the light, the colourful light and water, its magic in a fairytale way…

finally snow...

2011-11-28T07:21:00.000-08:00

I got these snow photos from my dad today by e-mail, so may be I got a white Christmas this year, yesterday the first snow fall in my childhood hoods…
It’s something special with snow and the whiteness, it’s like poofy wiped cream all over the landscape, but I also like the weather here in Gothenburg right now, + 8-10 degrees and a low sun. (Gothenburg can be cold and moist at wintertime and that’s not fu n at all).

Sigge the family cat is the top model at the photos… waiting for Santa?!

a non advertisement pillar...

2011-11-28T07:17:00.000-08:00

My hoods Majorna, I like the creativity that you can see around you in this hoods, today I found this advertisement pillar and some one has done it to a non advertisement pillar, I like when this things happen in my surroundings, it make me believe that we all have the power to take control over the commercial consumer society that impose us…

form workshop to deliver …

2011-11-28T07:15:00.000-08:00

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clementine...

2011-11-27T09:03:00.000-08:00

A taste of Spain… I love Clementine’s and I think they look like a little sun, and you know that they hold a lot of C-vitamins that is good to have in the winter season here in Sweden when people on the tram and everywhere is sneezing at you…

1st advent…

2011-11-27T07:14:00.000-08:00

A grey and wind Sunday, a perfect indoor day…

It’s no winter feeling at all the grass are green and the snow aren’t here,
it’s +10 degrees and yesterday I rescue a butterfly in my apartment, a very strange feeling that a butterfly has been born in my apartment so late at the year…

Eva Zethraeus and Paula Lindblom in a mix…

2011-11-27T06:59:00.001-08:00

A collaboration that I’m very satisfied with, now I cross my fingers that Eva like what I have done with her lovely and beautiful ceramic branches.

Kulturlabbet at galleri VSA... 1/12 2011 - 10/1 2012.

2011-11-27T06:45:00.000-08:00

I’m an art and form instructor at Kulturlabbet and now we have a show with paintings, photos and lyrics and some performance under the opening evening.

I invited you to be a part of this opening and if you don’t have the time, may be you have the time to stop by some other day, I think (but off course I’m partial to this…) that you will like the art that we will show here, it’s a small cut-outs from the item we are working with right now and have worked with almost a year back in time; the journey of life…

Some of the artist will be at the opening.

http://www.kulturlabbet.se

Konstepidemins Jul 2011...

2011-11-27T06:42:00.000-08:00

Konstepidemins Jul 2011
3 dec kl 12-17

Konstförsäljning, workshop, utställningar, glögg, musik, allsång, restaurang och kafé.Håll koll! programmet uppdateras kontinuerligt!

Öppen ateljé: Anna Bauer • Gill Marshall • Karin Östberg • Kerstin Sarvimäki • Elisabet Eriksson • Bibbi Forsman • Torbjörn Steijner • Ewa Brodin • Sverker Eklund • Elisabeth Åström • Helen Dahlman • Patrik Andiné • Nils Ramhöj • Roland Borén • Eva Dahlin • Ragnar Schmid • Ami Lanmark

Allsång: med Stefan Forssén, Bronja Novak Lindblad och Ola Karlberg m.fl./kl 14, Blå Huset
Julverkstad: svävande julpynt med Nina Zetterquist och Kerstin Åsling-Sundberg/Drop-in, Gröna Rummet kl 13–16. Materialkostnad 40:- Välkomna!

Utställningar:• Jill Lindström - Kontinentalvandring/Galleri Konstepidemin• Jill Lindström och Peter Kruse - Härifrån till evigheten/Pannrummet• Gudrun Åsling och Bo Söderström - grafik/Blå Huset• De Ungas VinterAkademi - Nitton killar och tjejer har arbetat tillsammans i en workshopserie. Nu visas en del av resultatet och processen/hus 10.

Välkommen.

http://konstepidemin.se/konstepideminsjul2011/

more four...

2011-11-27T06:40:00.000-08:00

Hej!

Advent närmar sig och i vår verkstad är det full fart. Vi rustar inför julmarknader och framförallt för julen på Four. Från och med den 3e december kommer julskyltningen vara på plats och hela december kommer vi ha öppet både lördagar och söndagar - och har ni vägarna förbi någon annan gång är det som vanligt bara att knacka på!

Hälsningar från Karin

Karin Roy Andersson

www.karin-roy.se

Ellen Holvik invited to VIP evening at Four…

2011-11-27T06:38:00.000-08:00

Varmt Välkommen på VIP kväll måndagen den 28/11 mellan kl 18-20 på Four på Nordhemsgatan 74 i Linné!

Glöm inte osa!

www.byellenholvik.blogspot.com

Varma hälsningar / Ellen

Thomas C. Chung...

2011-11-27T06:33:00.000-08:00

Thomas C. Chung at Hardware gallery

http://www.hardwaregallery.com.au/

6 - 17 December, 2011

What I Had I Gave Away is an exhibition of small soft sculptures and large watercolour and embroidery drawings and is the second part of a two-part show by Amanda Humphries and Thomas C. Chung.

The first exhibition: All I Have I Hope To Keep was shown at Gallery Eight in September 2011.

In part one the duo were chasing the shadow, and freezing the real, accentuating the constant representations of life through making toys and embroidering ambitions. Everything was detached and preserved in this ever sensation-simulated world.

Just as part one is based on permanence and plasticity, then part two starts to contemplate its opposite. Processes of abandon and dissolve, of letting go, rather than holding on; the two shows are threading together the dance created between permanence and temporality, often employing the 'double' as a common vehicle for such concerns, whether through an awareness of time sequence (before and after shots) with Thomas' soft sculpture and running narrative, or through shadowed imagery with Amanda's use of contrasting mediums, light fluid bodies with heavily embroidered shadows, butterflied machines and lovers.

Taking into consideration the name of the venue Hardware Gallery, the art works occasionally play with tools and hardware as their subjects, often casting them in an organic light.

There is a certain amount of acceptance in this show, of our fragility and decay, and with the cyclical nature of the two show themes rotating and jousting. The work appeals to the holistic nature of the relationship between the real and the imagined.

"Inte fan blir man friskare av kultur"

2011-11-27T06:24:00.000-08:00

Fotograf Håkan Humla

Kultur är inte nytta och pengar - den är insikt
"Inte fan blir man friskare av kultur" hävdar förre kulturministern Bengt Göransson.Med det menar han inte att det bör satsas mindre på kultur. Tvärtom är det tanken att kultur måste vara nyttig som han angriper. Kultur handlar inte om sjukvårdskostnader utan om insikter som förändrar människor, som i sin tur förändrar världen.I går kom han till Sundsvall och lunchteatern.

- Det sägs att folk mår bättre av att läsa böcker. Men i stället mår de kanske sämre, eftersom de får sakernas tillstånd klart för sig. På samma sätt är risken stor att engagerade, medvetna människor ställer större krav på sjukvården än de liknöjda och passiva.

Å andra sidan är det inget argument mot kulturen, menar Bengt Göransson, socialdemokratisk kultur- och utbildningsminister 1982-1991. Kultur är inte stundens upplevelse, ingen kassako, inte trösten som ska hjälpa oss att uthärda världen. Om vi blir friskare och gladare av kultur så är det bra. Men det är inte syftet. I stället är kulturen källan till djupa, subjektiva insikter som skapar ett engagemang, som är lika med samhällsdeltagande och demokrati.

Han slaktar många av nutidens heliga kor. Till exempel att framgång är sådant som går att mäta: i pengar, måluppfyllelse, antal eller nytta. Det leder till "projektsjuka" bland politiker och ibland rentav till något som har skrämmande likhet med totalitära system.

- Vi har ett kulturborgarråd i Stockholm som säger att "kulturarbetarna måste veta vad som förväntas av dem". Så sa man i det gamla Sovjet. Kulturborgarrådet är inte kommunist, men hon är ett offer för beställar-utförarmodellen. Stockholms kulturpolitik går mot en katastrof när politikerna ska gå in och precisera vad var och en ska göra.

I stället för att ängsligt försvära sig åt penningräknande, nyttoinriktning och mätbara mål, menar Bengt Göransson, måste politikern respektera konstnären i hans/hennes roll att utöva den "positiva trolösheten" mot samhället: att genomskåda och påtala.

Han vänder sig också mot glidningen från begreppet "kulturliv" till "kulturindustri". Här sticker åter penningtrollet upp och viskar att det är oviktigt om folk får med sig något omtumlande, klokt eller tänkvärt, bara de kommer i stora skaror och har trevligt. Som jazzfestivalen han berättar om, vars kringaktiviteter gynnade allt från arrangören till stadens hotell.

- Men utvecklade den jazzen? Var finns det nya och överraskande när festplatsen blir viktigare än innehållet? säger Bengt Göransson.

Nej, stundens upplevelse får inte ersätta det som dröjer kvar: fördjupning, insikt och engagemang. Det går inte att mäta i kronor eller publiksiffror, eftersom det handlar om något subjektivt. Men det är grunden för ett aktivt samhällsdeltagande.

Därför oroar han sig när medborgarna degraderas till kunder. Medan kundens och skattebetalarens roll bara är att betala för en beställd tjänst, har medborgaren också ett ansvar: att intressera och engagera sig; att delta. Det är insikterna, inte konsumtionen, som utvecklar människor och det är upplysta, engagerade människor som förändrar världen, inte de passivt betalande, menar Bengt Göransson.

Det gäller också att hålla emot tanken att "allt går så fort numera". Vi får inte låta det flimrande bruset ta ifrån oss tiden och förmågan att tänka och reflektera. Beslut fattade på reflex är farliga. Innan man säger ja och nej ska invändningar luftas, följder begrundas. Kultur odlar den förmågan.

- Numera ska det helst finnas en inköpsbudget för varenda garnända. Men när det gäller kultur måste man våga ge sig ut på det öppna havet, säger Bengt Göransson.

Susanne Holmlund
Publicerad 11 november 2011

http://st.nu/kultur/1.4089892-kultur-ar-inte-nytta-och-pengar-den-ar-insikt

rör inte Kvibergs marknad...

2011-11-21T02:53:00.000-08:00

I was there, but no one else as I could understand…

I look at the part of facebook that I have access too; I’m not a member of facebook, believe it or not… I’m acting like an old dinosaurs, I will be part of the real life and don’t click “like” at everything, I want to be a part and act without all this social intermediate, even if I’m a big fan of internet and the fast and easy way to contact people all over the world, so as you can see I’m a splintered person…

Here is an article that I found from our local newspaper, they have written about the area and how this politics are thinking about it, that one thing not preclude the other. It’s in Swedish…

Vi vill bevara Kvibergs marknad
Kvibergs marknad diskuteras igen. Vi ser stora fördelar med att ha kvar marknaden på nuvarande plats eftersom den bidrar till ett hållbart Göteborg, skriver bland andra Mats Arnsmar (S).

Vi står bakom idrottsvisionen om ett levande område för rekreation och aktiviteter på Kviberg. Visionen ska utvecklas samtidigt som det finns plats också för marknaden och bostäder. I stadsplaneringen eftersträvar vi denna blandning av människor, bostäder och verksamheter – som visat sig vara det mest socialt hållbara på lång sikt. En stad där det planerade också ger utrymme för det spontana, kreativitet och energi.

Behöver fler marknader
En typ av verksamhet måste inte dominera ett område helt. Kviberg kan få en stadsmässig blandning och blir då en större tillgång för stadsdelen och staden. Göteborg behöver dessutom fler marknader och mer hållbar handel.

Trafikmässigt har Kviberg också ett bra läge med god kollektivtrafik. Risken för ökad biltrafik går därmed att reglera.Varje helg kommer tiotusentals göteborgare till Kvibergs marknad. Marknaden är inte bara en social mötesplats och turistmål utan också en plats som skapar sysselsättning. Här finns över 250 fasta företagare som riskerar att stå utan arbete och försörjning om marknaden läggs ner, entreprenörer som vi måste ta vara på.

Göteborg ska vara en smältdegel
Samtidigt som marknadens plats garanteras för framtiden måste vi säkerställa tryggheten för kunder och besökare och att verksamheten sker enligt lagar och regler. Det ska ske i samverkan med berörda förvaltningar och myndigheter. Framtidens Göteborg bör vara en smältdegel av olika människor och verksamheter. Genom att skapa och behålla mötesplatser kan segregationen brytas. Kvibergs marknad är en sådan mötesplats.

Att kunna åka spårvagn till området och möjligheten att handla ekologiskt med återvunna saker är ytterligare en hållbarhetsdimension. Vi vill att Kvibergs marknad finns kvar.

Mats Arnsmar (S)
kommunalråd
Thomas Martinsson (MP)
kommunalråd
Mats Pilhem (V)
kommunalråd

http://www.gp.se/nyheter/debatt/1.776044-vi-vill-bevara-kvibergs-marknad

a collaboration...

2011-11-20T16:07:00.000-08:00

In the middle of the night and I have coming up with an idea about Eva Zethraeus and my small collaboration, I have got some of Eva’s nice and beautiful ceramic branches and the permission to do jewellery by them… I’m satisfied so far…

So far it’s one necklace and two brooches.

the butho part; Endangered...

2011-11-20T09:53:00.000-08:00

A glimpse of what’s coming up at the dance scene Atalante here in Gothenburg, at spring 2012 Frauke will have the first performance with the butho part; Endangered.

Våren 2012 kommer Frauke har urpremiär med sitta nya buthostycke Endangered.

http://www.atalante.org/repertoar.asp?ID=482

I was at Skansen Krona with my friend Carin this evening and have the opportunity to be a part of this performance, it was +5 degrees and a little bite windy and the dancer was dancing and performance barefooted.
It was no idea as the audience to complain of the coldness, when this little person so tiny, makes this dance outdoors for around 30 minutes in a very slow tempo.
I’m impressed and I loved it, the dance and the sound and the smell of the fire.

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

the earthly doorway to paradise…

2011-11-20T09:52:00.000-08:00

Den jordiska porten till paradiset,
The earthly doorway to paradise…

I wonder if this is the doorway that they were thinking off?
This is a door way at Risåsberget in the beginning of Skansen Krona.

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

Yellow Splitch, a sound and light installation…

2011-11-20T09:43:00.000-08:00

The bridge of colour in sunny light this time and with music or sound…

today I feel blue…

2011-11-19T07:04:00.001-08:00

Klippan today... a walk...

The name day today is Elisabet and Lisbet and my mother and my sister has Elisabet as their middle name… So, congratulation on the name day mum and Jenni!