Home Work Club exhibition

Semiotics: visual poem

Oh my giddy aunt, I've been working on this big ol' brief for a while now. Going to New York (yes, in March) I saw this poem on the metro:

I remember my mother toward the end,

folding the tablecloth after dinner

               so carefully,

as if it were the flag

               of a country that no longer existed,

but once had ruled the world.

Coming back and setting out to work on interpreting this poem with semiotics, nazis attacked and stabbed some feminists in my home town and all hell broke lose in my insides. Still informed by Jim Moore's poem, my project geared towards more personal, political territory. 

Fold-a-flag is about the flag as a symbol and how the way one reads a flag can be distorted or shifted over as little time as a decade. How a society can decide to turn against a group of people, against reason and compassion, lured by the idea of "our" well-being as being separate from "theirs". 

It's a realistically useless design project meant to bring personal inner calm (to me, and to you too if you want) and make you think about what you could do practically to change our society to the better. Voting in the EU-elections would have been a good start. Not voting for joke politicians would have been another.

-> FOLD A FLAG WEBSITE <-

Because

Some things can't be explained. This wood cut practically carved itself whilst I was busy with all my projects and exhibitions and work last spring. Testing some ideas of manual threshold selection and inked crumpled paper, this was mainly for my own fun's sake.

Pretty Much It
Wood cut print, 2013
Test print (top) and edition of 1/1 (below)
Actual size A2
Image source // PMI

I like it because it looks quite deep, if you want. They look serene, or sad. Or just very cosy. In actual fact, it was something about videogames. Classic PMI, good old times. 

Ah, thinking you know people when you really don't. Strange feels.

Mike, Eric, Jake, thanks for the distractions.

Over there

Photopolymer print, photo collage.

上を向いて歩こう

An instructional poster on how to sing Kyu Sakamoto's Sukiyaki (or what you need to eat the food instead).

4-colour screen print, A2. Exists in a limited edition of 4.

End-of-year exhibition Grafiken 2013

Self-portrait. Woodcut/screen, 6 colour print. 1/1
The House Theory. I am a metaphorical apartment building. A grey, bordering on maltreated, almost deserted, functionalist house. There's a shindig on the top floor, decorated all in thoughts and ideas and images of feelings. Words are my building blocks, snake-like and quick-stepped trains of thoughts. Severity and silliness, truths of the day and complications, they make me.


See more pictures from the exhibition opening here! <-

Blueprint

Blueprints

Blueprints of a critter-y fellow.

Woodcut collage

I'm working on my contribution to our end-of-year exhibition, and it's spiraling out of control in a wonderful way. Am I screen printing? Am I doing a woodcut? Am I doing both in a big ol' mess? Stay tuned for the exciting reveal.

In the meantime, here's a collage my old chum the scanner and I put together today. It's a step towards one of the many Plans I harbour right now, however I found it fairly shiny in its own right.

CD-cover: Chip Taylor's Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World

A test print I made for the release of Chip Taylor's Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World. The plate was a bit messed up though, so this is officially the only print ever made. Dundunduuuun.

Oh, and here's a gif of the cover design:

'tis the season!

This year's screen printed Christmas cards. The Christmas pineapple is decorated, the electric bug-man's got his festive hat on and the heist mad fair game is afoot!

Screen: Elderly ladies' guide to breakdance (Swedish vers.)

Screen printed instructional poster for active elderly ladies. Limited edition of 10 in two versions, white and bone white.

Print: Grace

For the release of Richard Lindgren's new album Grace I made a print of one of Kate's pictures. It's a photoplymer print in two colours, printed first in dark sepia and then in black ink on top. It's a limited edition of 10.

Kate Visonj

Exhibition 2012

The end of year exhibition of print-making 2012, my first year.

Dark rooms
Etching and screen print
Series of 3 x 5, all editions 1/1 (with specified versions)

The idea is to print black on black and let the light decide what you can see of the images, and when. Figures inspired by different kinds of relationships one can have to others or to oneself.

Chip Taylor print

Poster for Chip Taylor's F**k All the Perfect People, linoleum.

Airbenders

Series of 2-colour screen prints for a school assignment, also early versions/sketches for the SUB ROSA project.

Wood cut

My first wood cut attempt.