Studio Friday: This week’s topic: THIS IS ME!

” How about photographing a collage of the things we work with? An arranged collection of papers and embellishments, or fabrics and trims, or paints and paintbrushes, or whatever it is we do that says “this is me.” I know we did tools and supplies already, but I thought it would be fun to create a little collage of all the things we use - tools and supplies both, and even other things like a favorite cd, dvd, cup of coffee, nail polish etc that say “this is me and this is what I do”. ~ Jill



This is me - for studio friday


This is me in many ways. The collage says very much about me, both just by looking at the pictures, but I could talk a lot about what this things means for me. So here we go. There are three pictures with woodwork and that just because it’s my biggest interest. I love woodwork, there are so many things you could do, both hard and easy stuff. And it’s my work to. So it takes a lot of my time, wood.

Then I have my bookcase in the collage, because I love books, I try to read as much as possible! Sometimes I think about the time when I was a child and didn’t read because I found it boring. I’m so glad that it changed when I was 12 years or so.

I love the ocean; I love the woods, or just nature. But I’m not so good at going out in the woods, think that it’s one thing I should do more often. I see so much beauty just buy looking at the seagull in the horizon and that amazing sunset I captured this past summer is just great! Two pictures that sum up nature for me in a good way.

Then it’s my skull gloves, and they are symbolic for two things, I like skulls and I like to knit. And why not combine them!

Last, in the right corner it’s a collage and that is also symbolic, I really like collages, but I’m not so skilful on making them, but find it relieving to make them. You never know before you start work what it will look like in the end. But this collage also means much more for me. It was one of the first I made, and felt satisfied with, and it’s about my grandmother and grandfather. I have written about it exactly one year ago today! How they where the world for me as a child and made me to the person I am today.

And that little girl with the skis in here knee then? That’s me, as a child, its Christmas 1982 and I have got my best gift ever. Skis and ski sticks.