Tales between Times
The series "Stories Between Times" tells of memories that don't always unfold linearly.
The series "Stories Between Times" is an approach to places – real and imagined – that have shaped, moved, or accompanied me. Each image tells a story that doesn't unfold linearly, but appears in layers, fragments, and moods. These are memories, visions, and emotional landscapes that oscillate between the visible and the unspeakable.
Every image is an invitation to connect with the places of one's imagination and thereby find inner peace
My works emerge in the tension between abstraction and association. I work intuitively, letting lines grow, colors assert themselves or recede. In these processes, I encounter forms that appear like figures, plants, houses, or symbols – yet they consciously remain open to interpretation. My aim is not to capture a moment, but to make inner time visible.
The titles of the works – “Another Story about Laugarvatn,” “A New Morning in Paraíso,” or “My Favorite Place” – refer to geographical locations that are simultaneously symbolic spaces. They represent transitions, beginnings, and homes in the broadest sense – memory and myth, hope and new beginnings, the search for an inner place of peace.
In a world that often wants to be loud, fast, and unambiguous, I aim to open a space with these works for the in-between: between times, between places, between people.
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