Advent – arrival

‘Hope’, Advent Calendar Day 1, watercolour and pencil on paper, December 2020

I have been writing the first lines of the blog post several times already.  It is quite difficult to put it into words what I want to say now that you are landing here, reading these words, seeing work that has been mostly invisible and which comes from a part of myself that has also been mostly invisible for many decades (at least in public spaces like this one.  Perhaps others have glimpsed these aspects of my being).

It is advent.  Advent means arrival.  There is a poetic quality for me in the beginning of this new season of my own life in the cradle of an older season of expectancy.

I was invited to make a work for the Late Autumn Art show of Konstepidemin’s Galleriet.  My work is there now, ‘Advent Calendar’.  Twenty-four postcards of abstract watercolour born out of a deep breakthrough in my own being in a challenging season of stretching and pulling apart.  Written on to the twenty-four cards are twenty four words from my stream of consciousness of ‘advent’.  This is the first one.