here and there..

 

 something new, about my postcards... very very soon

 

tangled life

 

tangled life

sharing sap

rainforest

 

—original artwork

mixed media on cardboard

[and black&white details] 

 

 

rainforest

 

 

tangled life

green veins

rainforest

 

—original artwork

mixed media on cardboard

 

the green island

 

 

the green island / fragments

dream island / solitary island

 

mixed media on heavy cardboard

21x21cm | winter exhibitions

 

 

the green island serie, here

for further information > info@illusimi.com 

 

the green island

 

 

 [fragments]

 

 

Eurasian Wigeon

 

 

wetland birds

Eurasian Wigeon

mixed media on cardboard

and details

—winter exhibition in Solothurn

 

wetland birds

 

Garganey

wetland birds

[in progress]

 

 

remembrance of a green evening

 

 

 

There was a coot nest in the Schanzengraben

peacefully in the evening shadow

and a chick or maybe more, and a parent

in search for green watery things, and

another adult with the small one/s

Quiet evening

green evening

 

[Eurasian coot / night sketch]

—

Eurasian Wigeon

Garganey

Long-tailed duck 

 

 

"The horizon disappears and scoters and

long-tailed ducks fly just above the water

in a silent, resolute line." —Tove Jansson

 

 

"Then the sea does nothing at all"

 

"One evening I went down to our live-box to get

some fish for the cat and dropped my knife in

the water, which made me think about what the

island looked like down there where it started

- maybe a broad base that lost itself in the long,

deserted ocean floor - less and less seaweed, more

and more darkness, absolute silence…"

 

"And she notes that you never know with the

weather. Suddenly the sea level rises - clearly

strong wind coming. The sea sinks catastrophically

- there will be a storm. Then the sea does nothing

at all, and pretty soon the wind’s blowing your ears

off. She adds that in fact all the facts and statistics

are idiotic, because the sea does precisely whatever

it wants.

[…] At the end of her notebook Ham wrote,

underlined, “We must not gild the lily.” Yes, yes,

I know, probably from the Bible. And I know

exactly what she meant - that we’ve tried to make

the meadow into a garden, change the thicket into

a park, tame the shore with a dock, and all the

other things we’ve undeniably done wrong."

—Notes from an island

Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

 

the island / dream island & the birds

 

"Ham notes unusual birds that stop by for a short

visit as autumn approaches - sandpipers, an

invasion of coal-black starlings, a crow or two,

a large bird that might almost have been an eagle,

a small owl. It’s important to keep track of the

wind direction, temperature and sea level, plus

the restful cycle of the vegetation with respect

to birth and death, especially the irrational plants

that can disappear totally one summer only to

take complete possession of the beach meadow

the following year. And Ham writes a lot about

the rowan."

 

 

 

"Sometimes I felt like unrequited love - everything

exaggerated. I had the feeling that this immoderately

pampered and badly treated island was a living thing

that didn’t like us, or felt sorry for us, depending on

the way we behave, or just because."

 

—Notes from an island / Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

 

 

birds' portraits / northern birds

 

 

Red-throated Diver

Great Northern Diver
Great Black-backed Gull

 

 

the island

 

 

 

LANDSCAPE / iceberg

 

 

fragments

 

 

 

LANDSCAPE / fragments / white matter

[ in progress ]

 

BIRDS' PORTRAITS / new page

 

BIRDS' PORTRAITS / VANISHING WORLD

 

FADING ICE, NORTH AND SOUTH

FADING HABITATS / VANISHING ROUTS

THE OVERSIZE HEAVYNESS OF OUR SPECIES

THE BLINDNESS

DREARY FOOTPRINTS / CUTTING TRACES

CUTTING LIVES / THE DISRUPTION

OF THE CONTINUITY / DEGRADATION

OVEREXPLOITATION

TINY FRAGMENTS

TINY UNLINKED SPOTS LEFT

OUR WAY INTO THE WORLD

 

a new page in my website, here

 

Northern Gannet

 

 

Northern Gannet

—birds' portraits

mixed media on heavy

cardboard 30x30cm

 

 

birds' portraits / gulls

 

BIRDS' PORTRAITS

Ross's gull

Black-billed gull