In The Blood of Eden

This painting is made especially for the exhibition “Little Treasures 2015” in Bologna.

The job was to create 4 pieces of 20 cm x 20 cm canvas, and I made a little story out of mine, by connecting them together like I use to do.

A method, that stems from my love of connecting information into a larger pattern, but also it is a symbolic presentation of the essence of my intentions. That is, to demonstrate visually how nature, imagination and fairy tales in a big way are viewed from a distance, like through a window in the larger society perspective. It makes me different I guess, as this is my reality, equally as the physical reality is.

In this painting I tell a story of the reawakening process that happens within the human soul, when it meets the reflection of it's own. I call it "In the blood of Eden", because the meeting echoes back who we are, and remind us what our purpose and job is in life. 

The white peacock, symbolizes this element in the picture – the element that activates the memory of the garden where it all started. The Garden of Eden in the Bible is of course, merely a visual symbol of mother earth's womb - before man realises his own free will, and goes on to destruct himself and his surroundings.

The name of the painting furthermore is inspired by Peter Gabriel's story of the same title. Because it played continually inside my mind when I was creating the painting.