ARTWORK – WORDS – POETRY CREATION – NEW ARTWORK

The Swedish artist John Bauer’s paintings, often with motifs of dark forests and deep ponds where trolls and other Nordic beings have an obvious place, are the start of this exercise. What can be seen in the selected pictures? Just look at the picture, experience it – and describe what you see, feel and think when you see it. Concrete and abstract, all words are gathered on one piece of paper. How can these words become poems? How can the forests, the trolls, the forest council and all the stones come to life through a limited number of words?

Each selects about ten words from the paper. Like puzzle pieces, the words are then joined together to form something new. Each one creates their own unique poem based on the given words. Conjunctions may be used to form sentences, as well as free inflections. How can these poems now be illustrated? Through the same technology as John Bauer, new watercolor paintings emerge. The moose in the poem is hinted behind the trees in the new picture. In one and the same work of art, there is finally both poetry and painting. The first inspiration has in turn created new art.