Susanne: More samples

I’ve finished the last two pieces, one being more of a calm polar landscape and the other as slightly more chaotic. I’ve tried to capture the feelings I got when I re-read Shelley’s book; solitude, abandonment and alienation but also the sense of nature’s grandeur. It is a sad book in many ways, but an insightful one as well about the fear of the unknown. My third piece is about this fear and the mixed emotions it might arouse when being encountered by monstrocity and also the multiplicity of it all. I believe monstrocity is something both individual and very common in the human mind. We fear that which we don’t know until we get to know it and it becomes familiar. By now I guess Frankenstein’s monster has grown into being somewhat like a dear old friend, at least for us working on this exhibition.

Here are some samples:   

Susanne: First sample

Wintery landscape overload going on right now in my laptop. Ice, mountains, snow and the vast ocean. Oh, and the monster of course. This is a sample of my first image.

Susanne: Samples

Thought I’d post some samples of my work. Me and Mattias have been busy printing our images and they turned out better than I had hoped for. Tonight will be all about frames and passepartouts!

Susanne: The process

I’ve tried to analyze the creative process of making pictures in order to post something useful on the subject in this blog. It’s been more complicated than I could ever imagine it to be. Naturally, when it comes to creativity there are no laws or universal truths to apply, only the never ending variety of minds and hearts of the persons creating. So, I thought I’d just start with myself and my work, that should be easy – right? Turns out, all of the pictures I’ve made for Panorama have been created in different moods and with different kinds of music pouring out of my crappy computer speakers. Sometimes I drank wine and chatted away on msn while working in photoshop. Sometimes I got up early in the morning and forced myself to create. Some pictures came easy and some I had to trick for several days before they caved in. All in all it’s been a very fun and stimulating process which – to my surprise – now has come to an end since I laid the last layer in the final picture just minutes ago. (Details from all six pictures coming soon.) It’s a nice feeling of relief when you’re done with a project, but also bittersweet as are all things that end. Luckily the process of creating does not.

Susanne: First things first

Just thought I’d give you all a quick sneak peak of what I’ve been up to for the last few weeks. Three images done so far for the exhibition and I’ll comment on them  – and the process of making them – later on, but first things first, here’s my firstborn: