A small, very typically Swedish cabin (red copper-based paint, white corners) growing all wild, perhaps with tumours, perhaps not knowing what it is anymore. Or why. And thus expanding in all directions...? There's such a lot of interpretation that could go with it... (You're very welcome to try.)
Our little confused house started out as a small sketch...
And soon I found myself planning some very dark boreal surroundings too (also very Nordic, if you ask me)...
Next I found a panorama shot of mine to go with it...
A few details:
Perhaps the poor house 'll just keep growing until it becomes a red pyramid (with white stripes, too) ---upside down, bound to collapse under the weight of all the ruminating additions to whatever it might be brooding about.
These Owls are Moss Owls, for a reason quite untranslatable -- in Swedish, when something feels fishy, you have a hint of Owls in the Moss (ugglor i mossen). I've never heard any explanation as to why they are owls, or why they hoot-toot-toot in a moss... Luckily, I don't need to know stuff. So here goes:
Mostly brownish, they got a splash of green to make them truly Moss Owls. But I suppose that they don't need too much camouflage. And that they find voles tasty.
For my little book, symbolizing yet one of those places where one is So Very welcome to try, to apply, but where one is sort of cursed; with the odds, prejudices or whatever set firmly against you. The front door is open, but one can never reach it. (My little thing is set in the Byzantine world of the Fine Arts biz but I'm very sure that you know of different systems that work in the same way.)
Anyhow, to capture this feeling, what could be more natural than escalators rolling in the wrong way?
Sort of fun fact: I made the wood panel on the sides of the escalator from a floor... the greenery was some sort of ivy that I found during a walk, the stone texture is from that walk too (cell phone cameras come in very handy). And as for the warped lines (those bubbly pillars etc.) they come from God knows where, but I sort of like them. The world is twisted, my lines are twisted. It says Bienvenue, Wilkommen, Welcome but doesn't necessarily let you in.
