One of my projects this autumn has been this hand knitted patchwork blanked.
The whole thing started very simple, I wanted a new blanked for my bed. A Black Metal blanked with knitting on one side and band t-shirts on the other side. I´ve been knitting small black squares since May, and that part is is almost completely over. And I got all the shirts I need, thanks to a lot of friends and others (who and what all come later someday).
But someplace in the process I started wondering if it could be something more that "just a bed blanked" And now I want to do something with the t-shirts as well, before it ends upon my bed.
Then, after talking to many of the staff on the Art Academy and my fellow art students, it slowly became a new project. And somewhere along the way I got the news that some former student, Tito Frey, were putting up this Christmas Calendar on Oslo S (Oslo Central Station).
After some sketching, writing and emails, my work was selected to be shown. There were chosen 24 different art work in all. More info about the project in on the homepage to the Christmas Calendar. http://www.kunstakademiets-julekalender.no/about.html
On the 7th day of December my work was shown.
In a very stressed mood I gave it the title "Aura Noir" right before I left it over to somebody else November 19th.. I´m still not sure if it was a good idea or just totally stupid....
I just wanted the box to be black and dark... like the long nights we have here in Norway at this time. And Christmas is not so bright and shiny for everyone.
Here is the box, 07.12.12
One of the sketches....
How it looks like in the studio. got 180... I wish I had time to make more patches...
Me stitching it together in my studio.
This is how my new studio on school looks like by the way! I got plenty of space, at least compared to last year! On the wall you can see some of the drawings I´ve been working on this autumn as well. Not finished then, but finished now as I write.
To see all the artworks, just follow this link http://www.kunstakademiets-julekalender.no/7.html
