367 Bedford Ave Painting

It was a period of many impressions, full of thoughts, expression and desire. But it was not so much of what I saw in galleries, art centers and museums that gave me the strongest impressions, but my immediate surroundings, the area around the studio, the prints in the urban environment. There was rough and worn surfaces, graffiti, car wrecks, deserted houses and plots, but also everything new. I walked daily around the area, documented, sound recordings, video, photos and drawings. Maybe it was my subconscious sense of something that reminded me of my childhood that made the feeling so strong. The dusty backyard tire shop where my grandfather once had. We used to play there, among the rubble, in an old wrecked car as we traveled on imaginary roads. It's been some years now and all the material has been in boxes. Despite the long time it has continuously been an adaptation of the material in my head, how to formulate the content. A few years ago I began to go through everything. I started making paintings of parts of the urban landscape. Most of the paintings contain lots of graffiti. They fill an important role in my urban portraits because they are so characterizing for the area. The different structures form fine interactions that clarify the feel of expression.