This is a minimalist, hard-edge charcoal drawing based on my collage process. I start with tiny sketches to focus on the big picture without getting bogged down in minor details. Once the composition is locked in, I scale the work up to its final size.
charcoal drawing, circa 100 x 70cm
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I’ve titled it Johanneberg after my neighborhood, as a small nod to the Bauhaus-inspired functionalist architecture in the area. The piece is part of an open edition and is sort of a play with perspective, space and geometry.
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Super excited to share my latest sculpture!
Created in collaboration with Sandhelden in Germany, it’s made using their unique sand 3D-printing process, which allowed me to transform my digital design into a real, tactile object.
I’ve titled it Johanneberg after my neighborhood, as a small nod to the Bauhaus-inspired functionalist architecture in the area. The piece is part of an open edition and is sort of a play with perspective, space and geometry.
It’s now available in the Available Works section of the site.
And just a note: in the animation, I played a bit freely with color! For the sculpture’s true tones, check out the photographs through the link.
I think it’s interesting how strict geometry can still feel soft and human through these layered, textured lines. The mechanical pencil’s recurring mechanical failures give the process a life and randomness that’s pretty funny concidering how structured the process otherwise would be, I was concerned that bringing a plotter into the mix would make the drawings too rigid and ordered but the effect was the opposite: the plotter is way less ordered than I am and these drawings that are part human and part machine are less ordered than my purely manual drawings. My machine is humaning better than me at the moment strangely enough, I can’t but laugh.
Added to DRAWINGS and AVAILABLE WORKS!
Symmetri" is one of my first plotter/manual drawings, created with a 2D pen plotter I recently brought into the studio as a kind of assistant.
For this piece, I worked with an automatic pencil, adjusting both tension and lead softness to achieve depth and darker tones. It’s an early experiment in trying to combine mechanical precision with the sensitivity of hand-drawn graphite.
"Symmetri" is one of my first plotter drawings, created with a 2D pen plotter I recently brought into the studio as a kind of assistant.
For this piece, I worked with an automatic pencil, adjusting both tension and lead softness to achieve depth and darker tones. It’s an early experiment in trying to combine mechanical precision with the sensitivity of hand-drawn graphite.
"Beam" is a big-ass colorful hardedge acrylic painting. I like playing with big shapes and perceived flatness/depth. Over n' out.
#hardedge #brutalism #colorism
Added a new category to the website, STRUCTURE, in an attempt to keep the paintings grouped in some kind of order!
I've been removing more and more elements lately and playing with light and color. I make supersmall drawings so I'll be discouraged from adding too many elements and then I scale it up for the finished piece. I find that this is a pretty good way of retaining some kind of simplicity. There is always a temptation of overloading a composition with lots of happy little details, this method avoid getting bogged down in the small stuff.
Also, I’ve been playing with the method of painting a lot lately. I designed a pattern roller and 3D-printed it, so these two are partly made with my new mechanical tool. I’ll make a post about the whole process in a later stage!
“Symmetrier” is a series of machine drawings, chainsaw paintings, dot paintings, and sand sculptures that move between order and dissolution, between structure and chance.
The works are based on a process of cutting and pasting, tearing, constructing, dismantling, and assembling. And reducing! Away with all the unnecessary junk!
By destroying original compositions and assembling fragments into new wholes, a form of visual archaeology emerges, where each layer bears traces of previous decisions.
//Mic
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