About my work

Since I can remember I have been fascinated with fairy- and folk tales. I appreciated how they brought into existence the possibility of an entire parallel universe at the end of my fingertips. A universe full of beauty and magic, a world that offers an escape to the reality we live in. To children it must seem like Utopia; justice and truth always prevail and evil stepmothers get their due punishment. Yet on a deeper level we can see the dark and the eerie within the fairy tale, as clearly as we are aware; Utopias do not work. Utopias are doomed to fall, just as fairy tales are there to frighten us as much as they entice.

After, Ever-After! is a compilation of different bodies of work united and bound together through common visual connotations from these tales: e.g. Little Red Riding Hood - both in 'The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was 1/3' and in `So As I Might See You Better 1/3' - or Cinderella, in 'The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was 3/3'

While looking at the image an underlying story slowly emerges, creeping up on the observer, almost like a shadow in a darkened alleyway. The girly Wellington boot in 'The One Who Went Forth To Learn What Fear Was 3/3' for example, could be seen as the remains of a horrific crime and cruelty or simply as the shoe the princess lost on the stairs after escaping from the ball.

It is the underlying, the hidden emotions that interest me. The Fear, deep rooted in us all, Anxiety and Paranoia - the real and the imaginary - buried deep within.

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