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Julia Beck -sur-Loing
A5 sketch of Julia Beck drawn for the guest book at hôtel Chevillon at the end of my residency. The rooms at the hotel are named after famous artists who used to live there, and I drew Julia Beck because my room was the Julia Beck room. Julia Beck (1853-1935) was a Swedish artist, famous…
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Château de Fontainebleau
The city of Fontainebleau is a 10 minute bus ride from my current stay as an artist-in-residence in Grez-sur-Loing. And at the heart of Fontainebleau is Château de Fontainebleau, the palace of Fontainebleau. This was the palace of several French monarchs since the middel ages, and the different sections of the palace reflect the styles…
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The Rock Art of Fontainebleau
These photos are from the exhibition Pierres secrètes: Mythologie préceltique en Forêt de Fontainebleau (Secret stones: Prehistoric mythology in the forest of Fontainebleau) at Musée de Préhistoire Île-de-France in Nemours. The exhibition featured petroglyphs, or rock carvings, done on portable stones found hidden in the Forest of Fontainebleau. It seems like the rock art was…
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Grez-sur-Loing Residency
For all of November I have an artist residency ,funded by Grafill, at Hôtel Chevillon, run by The Grez-sur-Loing Foundation. Grez-sur-Loing is a small commune a few hours south of Paris in France. I have a room and an atelier at the hotel, and my goal during this month is simply to do sketches and…
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Midsund Petroglyphs
19th October 2023 I was in Midsund to do a workshop about petroglyphs at a school (through Den Kulturelle Skolesekken). Teachers at the school told me about some petroglyphs on the island that I was unaware of, and gave me directions to the site. I traveled to see them on the same day. The two…
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Evenhus Figure Interpretation 1
There is a curiously carved human-like figure among the petroglyphs at Evenhus: If it is supposed to be a human, it is lacking both arms and legs. Without the face it wouldn’t look very human at all. As it is rather rare for human petroglyph figures to be carved with ears and a face, I…
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Stiklestad
I was invited to Stiklestad in Verdal to hold a presentation about my project on interpreting petroglyphs at the conference SPOR – arena for kulturarv 2023. I am thankful to Kulturtanken for inviting me and it was great to see all the other presentations about cultural heritage at the conference.
