Beginner & Sinner

Opening up the curtains to art as an expression of an ultimate concern...

White Cows

ARTIST STATEMENT ON PAINTING:
WHITE COWS.

Dimensions 30X80". Acrylic & mixed media on woodpanel

THE THEME:
The cultural difference between Copenhagen and Los Angeles - The self aggrandizement of women in LA.
It is not a new phenomenon that, women demand attention.
Attention is an economic advantage.
LA most of all, is a city controlled by the brutal force of financial gain as a social and financial security network is virtually non existent. Female beauty is a wealth magnet as well as a status symbol.
Women in LA (all kinds of nationalities) emulate media stars as the 'Figure Magnifique' of mythology.

THE FALLACY:
The fashion industry induces the belief that thin girls, are the real representatives of beauty. A rather narrow minded ideal.
The degeneration of natural beauty is far more obvious in LA as girls here are typically one or two sizes smaller in their measurements, than their counterparts in Copenhagen, Denmark.

THE MANIA:
The essence of my painting is a culmination of my observation and research into the thematics of female beauty in modern media and fashion.
The content of the painting consists of images inserted into conceptually designed space. In the digitally designed and in the hand drawn images within the painting, my intention is to evoke/visualise flickering images in the background of a particular location.
These flickering images or films are of nanotech equipment for life extending and body-beautiful surgery, future dna manipulation, and even to the axe of a slaughterhouse.
A comment on female beauty, the methods used and the extent to which people will go to in order to achieve this. Beauty conquers everything and beauty equivocates with success.

THE THIRST:
Across the painting, there are rows of identical catwalk mannequins, posing in continuous repetitive movement.
The march of Nazi's on parade.
They stand still, a black conveyor belt propels the girls dressed in cowskin, through the room. The floor beneath the conveyor belt is drenched in blood. The slaughterhouse.
The theme of twins represent the idea that women mirror themselves in each others narcississtic adoration.
The colorscheme of the painting has conscious movement from light
to dark, and from the left to the right. The concept of progression in western society. The color palette is very feminine and deliberately misty, the location of a polluted place, where it constantly rains blood and milk.

THE RESULT:
A parallel on the subject of being a woman in LA, and a meatmarket. Therefore the title, "White Cows".

Friedrich Nietzsche quote

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”

Repulsive Repetitions, Pleasure Guilt Syndrome...

In my paintings, I strive to communicate from a myth-generated part of our cultural heritage,
revealing individual and collective patterns in the human structures of sensing the essence
of being alive. My quest is to bring dreams, memories and love to life. It is then up to the voyeur
to receive a subjective impression.
I returned again and again in recent years, to the theme of transformation of life.
There is a kind of cultural deep freeze in our bodies, where society paralyses our brains, and
disconnects us from nature, sealing the life of feelings and making the idea of radical change
almost unthinkable.
If the artist's function is to hold up a mirror to society, we may have to accept the fact
that in our time, the mirrors are hazy. The wearing of a mirror, reflecting every experience back
into our own consciousness is a progression from illusion to clarity.

The problem is that we are blinded by our own projections, stopping us from staying true to love
and unity. So don't expect perfection.

Several of these latest paintings, particularly in Repulsive repetitions, explores thematically classical
elements. Such as the Assyrians and the woman and ..satan,.. and ..satan.. and the woman, or.. carnal
desires and the woman, ...are often implanted in abstractions about nature and the body feminine.
Through repetition of mythological symbols and figures, on love and passion, from earliest historical
times, the paintings demand some attention. One might not be seduced at first, but then slowly, as
one enters the images, a kind of pattern emerges where recognition might possibly dawn..!

Quote

"An Artist needs the nerves of a bullfighter, the concentration as a buddhist monk, the courage of a female Parisian nightclub owner"
Jaschka Heifetz