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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012The sun rose again at 5:33 this morning, and I was up to catch the early morning light. It´s true, it really is magical light first thing in the morning. Just look at how happy the light-tower is! And if you look closely, you might see me smiling just behind the camera Today I´ve learned [...]
Lindesnes
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012I must admit, today my life actually feels pretty exotic. I´ve been invited to Lindesnes Lighthouse to stay for a couple of days in their guest-apartment. What an honor! They´ve seen my work in a magazine, and invited me down for a possible cooperation on an exhibition. Lindesnes is the furthest south you can possibly [...]
The feather workshop.
Sunday, April 29th, 2012Well, let me just start with one thing. I know a lot more about feathers now than I did a couple of days ago! What the possibilities are, what you can with them and to them, and how you can use them incorporated into costumes. And I have to admit, it was a lot more [...]
The Costume Symposium in Copenhagen
Sunday, April 29th, 2012I´min Copenhagen at a Costume Conference. The Norwegian Opera and the Royal Theatre of Denmark are arranging the event, and around 160 costumiers are attending. 160! I´ve never seen so many costume-people in one place. Thursday was a common day for all of us, with information on new techniques, presentations of development in the field. [...]
Mexico – travel journal
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012Here are some of the pages in my art-journal. I usually have a handy sized travel-journal with me, but since I was going to ARTFEST, I thought I´d just use the same journal. I did use mainly the same travel-arting-kit though, with water-color and a black pen. A little gel-medium to use as glue in [...]
Cancun
Monday, April 9th, 2012The only bummer about the tour I guess was yesterday. After visiting Chichen Itza, we went to Cancun. This is of course not at all like the rest of Mexico, a crazy-little-party-town filled with huge hotels for American tourists, right on the beach of the Caribean. I´m not a “Syden”-person, and would never go on [...]
Chichén Itzá
Monday, April 9th, 2012Today I´ve learned – that Chichin Itza is a huge area, beautiful with amazing historical architecture. – that the old Mayan religion sometimes required human sacrifice. It´s difficult to know for certain anything about the old ways, as most of the information was lost due to the Spanish invasion or conquering or “discovering”, if you´d [...]
Uxmal
Sunday, April 8th, 2012Today we were blessed with a good guide again, and I learned – that Uxmal means “3 build”, meaning that it has been built in three different epochs. The first in ca 200-500AD by the Mayans. Their chief was a very smart man, who had the big pyramid-temple you can see to the right, built. [...]
Mérida
Saturday, April 7th, 2012Today I´ve learned – nothing about Mérida. Maybe except that people drive like crazy here, they have a lot of old churches, and one very bad guide. But the bus is cheerfully painted though – that I can totally get used to not freezing! See?! I´m bare-foot! It´s a miracle! ;-) No, seriously. But it [...]
Taxco
Friday, April 6th, 2012Today I´ve learned – that Taxco is the silver-capital of Mexico. A beautiful, little city with a strong celebration-tradition for the Holy week (the Easter-week) And I would´t be surprised if Taxco was Torbjørn Egner´s inspiration for “Kardemommeby” (the children´s book Cardemom city, which I will start working with the set-design on when I get [...]
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