ARTIST LECTURE a selbe, Simen Johan

Simen Johan was an artist who visited here within the last year and I must say I am most puzzled by his work. I listened carefully to his lecture but I found it very difficult the mental understand the ideas he was trying to describe.

Simen's work really started out working with children. He was searching to show the children creating order in chaos and trying to discover things. There are two examples of this at the top. the most amazing thing about this work is that it is collaged together. In the image of the girl she was originally a girl on a beach and the background, cigs and pig were all added together separately; I cannot image the amount of editing times these images could have needed.

He work changed to be about animals and he is trying to show the natural world has it hovered between "reality, fantasy and nightmare." This work is really just odd but one image i fell in love with is the tree at the top. In his lecture he describes it as being a monster shrouded by the heavy fog.

The three images above I picked out because they are just beautiful and they demonstrate the innocent side of Simen's work, other images show pain, and nightmare but i was more drawn to the innocence of these three images.