Coppelia Painting

It is we, who make each other tick, according to old icelandic wisdom.* The last years I've focused on human features and found great joy in creating fictional faces, such as these in this portfolio. They're free developments of scribblings in the margins of my old schoolbooks, yet directed towards new, to me unknown territories. These faces can be seen as extended self portraits, as far as I am able extended to the limit of de-personification. I mean, they don't look like me, just hold something of me that I presumably share with others. *("Man är mans gamman", eng. "Man is the joy of man", Havamal). I choose to understand "man" as meaning "human being" since women should be as normative as men.