I use photography’s illusion of reality to create a world where I can sift through my musings about life.
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The Dutch 1600-century painter Jan Davidz de Heem is a master of the still life genre that triumphed in one of art history’s golden epoques The Heems beautiful flower still life, which on closer examination turns out crawling insects, marked the beginning of Anna-Karin Brus last theme, vanitas. The Heems way of working - his still life is a fiction, not depictions of actual flower arrangements - Anna-Karin Brus continued to apply and develop. It’s about relationships in history, ... the case of the realization that all is coming, and if each generation of rights and opportunities to rediscover, re-use and thus recreate the ancient knowledge of the fragility of life, its beauty and its inevitable impermanence.
In the 17th century, Jan Davidsz de Heem painted a Still life that I like very much. The painting is now at the National museum in Stockholm and I look at it as often as I can. The flowers that it shows look so real. It is really as if the artist had them before him as he painted but that, I have been told, was not the case. Instead the painting is a compilation of sketches. The bouquet, hence, has never really existed. The picture is also filled with a number of symbolic references. But while these today have lost some of there relevance, the flowers still have a lot to say about life, love, loss and death. It is the experience of this painting, its composition and meanings that has been my point of departure when working with the Vanitas-series.
