Photo: Pål Hornburg
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My Statement! |
Pablo Picasso once said “Good artists copy, Great artists steal” ...It means you may not be the first to try something, but you did it so well that everyone thinks of you when they see that style. Like Picasso, Liechtenstein, Monet, Van Gogh…they may have started out coping someone else, but in the end they completely stole it.
You can say and think whatever you want about comics, but just think how important this, the comics, has been to people! That even now, 50 years after his death, Walt Disney is perhaps the foremost symbol of American culture, and it would be difficult at all to imagine a world without what he and others with him created. Their world, shaped my world!
All my works are inspired by 60s, 70s and 80s comics, cartoons, popcultur and experiences from my own childhood.
All my works are inspired by 60s, 70s and 80s comics, cartoons, popcultur and experiences from my own childhood.
I am quite often asked the question "Why do you paint Mickey Mouse & the Phantom?"…
I do not work with either Mickey Mouse, The Phantom, The Batman or any of the other famous cartoon characters, but with the significance the world of comics had on me through my childhood. What significance does it still have on me? I caricature, parody and portray characters and stories, and then braids it all together with memories from my own childhood. I’m playing with emotions that still evoke in me! Forgotten memories that reappear! I'm playing with the fantasies I walked around with at that preticular time in life!
I'm playing with what is still left of me, the original me, from back then when I was a kid!?
And I see my work is a comment on the time and society we all live in…
I do not work with either Mickey Mouse, The Phantom, The Batman or any of the other famous cartoon characters, but with the significance the world of comics had on me through my childhood. What significance does it still have on me? I caricature, parody and portray characters and stories, and then braids it all together with memories from my own childhood. I’m playing with emotions that still evoke in me! Forgotten memories that reappear! I'm playing with the fantasies I walked around with at that preticular time in life!
I'm playing with what is still left of me, the original me, from back then when I was a kid!?
And I see my work is a comment on the time and society we all live in…
Their world, shaped my world!
(The End)