Safe from harm
“Post Partum” is a series of paintings about how we are all utterly responsible for our immediate surroundings, which to me is an equally humbling as terrifying revelation.
When my partner and I emerged from the hospital with our firstborn we figured we better get into a cab and disappear as fast as possible, before the grown-ups would come and take the baby away from us. Surely they wouldn’t let us just take a newborn with us to feed and play with to the best of our abilities? As absurd as it felt, we managed to keep that tiny meatloaf alive. A couple years later I was digging in the dirt and found a huge toad, I was a hairs width away from cutting it in half with the spade, and as I picked her up to make sure she wasn’t hurt I had that same feeling of acute vulnerability that I had experienced outside of the hospital a few years earlier. We are all utterly responsible for our immediate surroundings, which to me is an equally humbling as terrifying revelation.
Technique: The backgrounds are built up in thinly sprayed layers using gardening spray cans with liquid acrylic paint in 8 different hues, and the toads are acrylic mixed with chalk to build up structure. On top of that i pour indian ink and transparent glossy medium to make the toads shiny and almost emerge from the canvas.
Size 55x40 cm
Cotton canvas on wood panel, with wooden frame
“Post Partum” is a series of paintings about how we are all utterly responsible for our immediate surroundings, which to me is an equally humbling as terrifying revelation.
When my partner and I emerged from the hospital with our firstborn we figured we better get into a cab and disappear as fast as possible, before the grown-ups would come and take the baby away from us. Surely they wouldn’t let us just take a newborn with us to feed and play with to the best of our abilities? As absurd as it felt, we managed to keep that tiny meatloaf alive. A couple years later I was digging in the dirt and found a huge toad, I was a hairs width away from cutting it in half with the spade, and as I picked her up to make sure she wasn’t hurt I had that same feeling of acute vulnerability that I had experienced outside of the hospital a few years earlier. We are all utterly responsible for our immediate surroundings, which to me is an equally humbling as terrifying revelation.
Technique: The backgrounds are built up in thinly sprayed layers using gardening spray cans with liquid acrylic paint in 8 different hues, and the toads are acrylic mixed with chalk to build up structure. On top of that i pour indian ink and transparent glossy medium to make the toads shiny and almost emerge from the canvas.
Size 55x40 cm
Cotton canvas on wood panel, with wooden frame
“Post Partum” is a series of paintings about how we are all utterly responsible for our immediate surroundings, which to me is an equally humbling as terrifying revelation.
When my partner and I emerged from the hospital with our firstborn we figured we better get into a cab and disappear as fast as possible, before the grown-ups would come and take the baby away from us. Surely they wouldn’t let us just take a newborn with us to feed and play with to the best of our abilities? As absurd as it felt, we managed to keep that tiny meatloaf alive. A couple years later I was digging in the dirt and found a huge toad, I was a hairs width away from cutting it in half with the spade, and as I picked her up to make sure she wasn’t hurt I had that same feeling of acute vulnerability that I had experienced outside of the hospital a few years earlier. We are all utterly responsible for our immediate surroundings, which to me is an equally humbling as terrifying revelation.
Technique: The backgrounds are built up in thinly sprayed layers using gardening spray cans with liquid acrylic paint in 8 different hues, and the toads are acrylic mixed with chalk to build up structure. On top of that i pour indian ink and transparent glossy medium to make the toads shiny and almost emerge from the canvas.
Size 55x40 cm
Cotton canvas on wood panel, with wooden frame