Textile separation

225 x 112 cm, wool and glasspearls on white velvet

Here I have played with the "divine sword", or the life-force, that cuts the tree in two parts, which for me signifies the startingpoint in becoming human being. One can see the female and masculine tree, how they are separated with great pain and then how they come together in the bigger tree after many, many lifes.

The concept of reincarnation is for me a fact, not something that I believe in or something I wish was true. I know because I have done a lot of work "going down" (difficult with words) to many other lives.

I suspect I will come back to this subject many times.

As I´m rather lousy at drawing the human body, especially faces, I very early choose to make trees instead of bodies. Much more easy and funny. So I have done hundreds of trees and probably my "tree-period" will never end.

Well, sort of it ended eight years ago when I started to paint in a more  intuitive way. Besides, I also got allergic to my wools (and our dog) so I had to quit totally making textiles.

I paint with watercolour and waterbased oilcolours. That is good for the smell at home and of cource it´s important not to pollute the environment.