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I want to dedicate this column to the artist Shirin Neshat. I am constantly told that ‘good’ art unlocks emotion. If that is the case, and I’m not necessarily saying it is, then her work did it for me. It started when I was looking at trailers and found that of her film Women Without …

So in one of my previous columns that I wrote I ended with “I dare you to uncover your work”. I realised I have not shown any work of my own. I got an assignment to make a video about the body. This is of course very broad and it took me a while to …

Right now I’m staring at a bowl with about a hundred different stones in it that serves the desired decorative effect. Some are sideways and some are upside-down. They are made out of the same material but none of them really are the exact same, even though it seems so at first glance. If you …

I’ve had many people tell me that my paintings are too busy. There is too much going on and I should use less variety in color. In particular, someone said to me “don’t you know the expression less is more?” I knew the expression but I was curious as to where it came from and …

In an interview done by Sylvia c. Toth with Iceland’s former president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Vigdís said, “Independence is the core of creativity”. When you think about it, we can lose all sorts of possessions that we own but we cannot lose our emotions and thoughts. We can lose our job, our house, our hands and …