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single white female.
22 and introverted.
1986-1991 : rome, italy
1991-1999 : valbonne, france
1999-2007 : vienna, austria
2007 : trondheim, norway
2007-2008 : bergen, norway

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has a thing for: birthday cakes, photography, going to shows alone, dinosaurs, penguins, norway, poetry, cheap film quality, music, pink cheeks, polka dots, sketchbooks, yellow school buses, senselessly writing ranting about music, love letters, secrets, her useless photo-blog&turtles.
writes about tragic love stories in her free time.

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My interest in art was triggered by endless hours spent in museums and art exhibitions; I was a kid with a lot of patience (surprisingly) and a love for the impressionists. I started out with the ambition of becoming a poet. Or, if not a poet, a writer. That's why words, phrases, language are still important in many art pieces I do. Sometimes sentences run in my head for days until I can manage to fix them into an image.. and sometimes the visual part of my art feels empty until I fill in some letters.
I think I began with drawing and painting. Those aren't my best skills, but I learned the basics, and I'm somewhat able to draw an apple which resembles an apple. Parallel to that, I played around with my photo camera - which, thankfully, was an old analogue Canon I could experiment a lot with. From there I moved onto mixed media. I think mixing techniques is something every artist should try, it was so liberating for me; I usually started with a photograph glued onto a canvas, and then worked from there using ink, cloth, pastels and acrylics. I projected words onto those 'paintings', started working more with space, room installations, with sculptures and performance art. I started getting interested in making more audio tracks for my installations after working on an audio project with an English musician.. And last year I started turning all the images in my head into weird little comic figures that are confused, suicidal and witty; now these figures have become 3-dimensional: clay objects and stuffed animals.
My work is an endless circle; I use ideas, materials, mental images again and again, in different ways. It's usually quite personal and is very much centred around experimentation.