Between by Annette Falk Lund

About "Between"

by Annette Falk Lund

About the artwork

Large, wide-set eyes look at us. A small tree grows on the forehead. The nose is like a firework and the mouth is shaped like a kiss. At the end of the neck are two creatures, one on the left and one on the right. A dialogue is going on in our heads, weighing up the pros and cons of something. What thing are we talking about here?
The colours of the motif are black and grey. Only in a few places has red and a faint yellow been used. The limited colour palette lends the face a certain restraint of expression.
The picture was created using a special mixed technique. The so-called stone paper was used, which the artist primarily works with. In the first step, a folded image was created from simple blobs. In the second, a print of this followed. The next step was to (discover) the motif by omitting and adding individual elements using brushes and gouache colours.
"Between" belongs to the series "Face to Face", which are painted using this technique. The inspiration for this came from the exhibition "Word and Image", which the artist had visited in Lübeck, where paintings and drawings by masterful literary figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor Hugo and Wilhelm Busch were on display. However, it was Justinus Kerner (1786-1862), an outsider, who appealed to her the most. As a poet and doctor, he wrote medical textbooks and developed "blotography".
Annette Falk Lund would like to invite you to playfully interpret the motif when looking at the picture "Between", either by talking to yourself or in dialogue with others.