Berit Førland

Bees in a kaleidoscopic landscape. They are useful and busy – but also a frightening nuisance.

One green and one yellowish eye, two pink nostrils, a red mouth and two insects as part of the eyes – an identity within a mask.

This small experimental work is an important piece in my pursuit of a technique to express sensations. The three-dimensional flowers and the pink stem are entities randomly placed in an orderly patterned landscape. They disrupt the landscape and demand attention.

In these small works with disrupted patterns I have added fringes, to transform pieces of painted paper into sensual objects.

Carpet is the working title for a new body of work.

Layers which start out neat and orderly with a simple understandable pattern gradually become more fragmented. In the end, redemption is offered only through one holding on to that which lies in between the fragments.

Curiosity/fear/fascination, sentiments which we experience in glimpses, understand in glimpses. My titles and works wander around the cracks and lines in between, catching glimpses and giving them a visual appearance in which they can be glimpsed yet again.

The past couple of days I ventured down a path which led back to a previous idea and a previous title : Embracing – embracing the cracks and the lines in between.

One tattered bird and one who appears as a blue mass integrated in the background behind floating trees. In both pieces I work with the softness and transparency given by the fiber structures.

A week spent with paper, acrylics, fiber and birds both confined and free. We desire freedom but need some element of confinement to reach fulfillment and satisfaction in that quest.