Typology

 

Our final assignment in the class Photography was a typology. we were asked to chose a motive and photograph 6-30 pictures of the same motive but different places. 
What do you think? 

Building

College

In one week I got the answer from the University in Oslo (my dream university) and the college in Israel (my plan B, in case I didn’t get accepted in Oslo). And the answer were that I didn’t get accepted in Oslo, but in Israel. For the next weeks I spent the time thinking about pro’s and con’s, to stay or to leave. But in the end I took the chance to move to another country. After all, I did have family there and knew the culture . I got accepted at a college in Israel, studying Interior architecture.
My first project was in Photography. Both for the teacher to see our abilities in photography and for the students to get to know each other we were asked to photograph one photo that described us in a traditional way, and one in a personal way.
Here is my photos: What do you think?

Trapped

what’s your intimate zone?

Home

Frozen

Stuck in the past and it keeps pulling me down

“I don’t want no future (want your future)
I don’t need no past (need your past)
One bright moment (one bright moment)
Is all I ask (all I ask)

I’m gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I’m gonna lose my mind (history keeps pulling me down)
Said I’m gonna leave my body (moving up to higher ground)
I’m gonna lose my, lose my mind (history keeps pulling me, pulling me down)

– Florence and the machine

Walk the path

 

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.

-Buddha

We accept the love we think we deserve

“Sam: Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we’re nothing?
Charlie: We accept the love we think we deserve”

– The perks of being a wallflower

Reflection, part 2

Keep moving forward

 

“If you can’t fly
then run,
If you can’t run
then walk,
If you can’t walk
the crawl,
But whatever you do
you have to keep
moving forward”
– unknown

Your love is holding me up

 

 

“I hear you breathing in
Another day begins

The stars are falling out
My dreams are fading now, fading out

I’ve been keeping my eyes wide open
I’ve been keeping my eyes wide open

Your love is a symphony
All around me
Running through me

Your love is a melody
Underneath me
Running to me

Your love is a song”

-Switchfoot

 

I dreamed in color ’cause I lived in black and white

“I used to dream my-self to somewhere else each night,
I dreamed in colour ’cause I lived in black and white”
– Katie Melua

In every winter’s heart

 

“In every winter’s heart

lies a quivering spring,

and behind the veil of each night

waits a smiling dawn.”

~ Kahlil Gibran

Balance

After the storm

After the storm.
If you let yourself  go deep.
To feel.
To seek.
You will find something special.
Something that will even shock you.
You will learn new things.
See the world a bit different maybe.
What you will find was not there before the storm,
or maybe it was.
But the storm needed to appear for you to see it.
See that something special.

Reflection

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” – Leonardo da Vinci 

Connect me to you

 

London’s calling

When autumn comes

I miss you most of all when autumn leaves starts to fall
A.J. Jutrem 2.8.1929 – 15.9.2005

Birth of a criminal

A friend asked me if i could draw a cover for his single “Birth of a Criminal” . He liked the idea of he drawing I made called “Pain; give yourself a name – Switchfoot” (https://truthconquers.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/pain-give-yourself-a-name-switchfoot/). He wanted his cover to be in that style; to show that people has a missing piece, a piece they don’t understand .

Stand out, part 2

Macro

sugar shock of a lifetime

Rosh Hashanah

!!חג שמח ושנה טובה
Happy 5774, Hope your year will be sweet and full of joy!

Texture, part 2

History

Checkmate

The summer of 2012 has started. My friends and I have ended 13 years of school, and everyone is disappearing in another direction. One in the marine. One in Paris. One studying to be a lawyer.
But I. I was nowhere. Since I was sick two years ago, I had to drop out of two subjects. By doing that, I could manage to complete second and third (last) year at high school. But as the third year ended, I knew I still had to take an additional year, to complete.
It felt like i was standing alone, all my friends disappearing living their lives, and the big queen is staring at me yelling: “So, what will you do?!  Will you start the life of a student, living the life you have dreamed of and be at the same level as all your friends? Or will you complete your education, so you wont be a dummy the rest of your life?! Come on! Choose! Now!”
The queen pushing me in to a corner, leaves me with no way out, no excuse, yelling: “CHECKMATE!”

 

Hope

“cold in a summer breeze
yeah, you’re shivering
on your bended knee
still, when you’re heart is sore
and the heavens pour
like a willow bending with the storm, you’ll make it

running against the wind
playing the cards you get
something is bound to give

there’s hope for the hopeless”

-A fine Frenzy

Lost in thoughts

Men in black

Green eyes

“I came here to talk
I think you should know
That green eyes, you’re the one that I wanted to find
And anyone who, tried to deny you, must be out of their mind”

 – Coldplay

Creature

Footstep of a stranger

“I wish you’d take a walk in my shoes for a start
You might think it’s easy being me
You just stand still, look pretty”

– The Wreckers

Dizzy

Come set me free!

Dandelion

 “I’ve lost myself or most of me, but you haven’t lost me yet” – Switchfoot

Show your true self

“Take a look at yourself in the mirror, who do you see looking back? Is it the person you wanna be? Or is there someone else you were meant to be? The person you should have been, but fell short of. Is someone telling you you can’t, or you wont? Because you can. Believe that love is out there. Believe that dreams come true every day, because they do. Sometimes happiness doesn’t come from money, or fame, or power. Sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family, and from the quiet nobility of leading a good life. Believe that dreams come true everyday, because they do. Believe that dreams come true everyday, because they do. So take a look in that mirror and remind yourself to be happy, because you deserve to be. Believe that. And believe that dreams come true everyday, because they do.” – OTH

Dream

 

 “The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent.”

 

“You’re gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul”

“I have grown too strong to ever fall back in your arms”

Remember what you deserve

 

 “Sometimes you have to forget what you feel to remember what you deserve.”

Let go, part 2

Let go

 

“See that rock that you hold onto

Is it gonna save you

when the earth begins to crumble?

Why’d you feel you have to hold on

Imagine if you let go”

– Katie Melua

Carry on

 

“May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground. Carry on” – FUN

Crossroad

” There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”  – OTH

Make a wish, and believe it can come true

“It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re 17 and planning for someday. And then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

We spend so much time wanting, pursuing, wishing. But ambition is good. Chasing things with integrity is good. Dreaming…

If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever.

Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want. Everything you want.

Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.

You never know where the next miracle’s gonna come from. The next memory. The next smile. The next wish come true.

But if you believe that it’s right around the corner, and you open your heart and mind to the possibility of it. To the certainty of it.

You might just get the thing you’re wishing for.

The world is full of magic. You just have to believe in it.

So make your wish… Do you have it? Good. Now believe in it. With all your heart.” – OTH

Focus on what gives you joy

“Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to things and people who stress you out.” – Thema Davis

Choices

“Have you ever wondered what marks our time here? If one life can really make an impact on the world? Or if the choices we make matter? I believe they do.  And I believe that one man can change many lives… for better or worse!” – OTH

Forget me not

 

“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”

– W.H.Auden

Illustration of a poem

Exam in Visual arts: Illustrate the poem “Under natt-treet” by Hans Børli. You have to use three different techniques. Criteria:  understanding the meaning behind the poem, illustrating the main theme, use of technique, composition, use of color.

The techniques I used was indian ink, watercolor/aquarelle and pencil.

Furniture for outdoor use

Exam in Design &Architecture: Design a furniture which will be used only outside and for rest. You are designing it for IKEA. Criteria: the materials you use has to be weather resistant, use of right ergonometric measures, it has to fit IKEAs style. Draw the product in perspective, and with every measures.

 

Module of a bench

 

Design & Architecture: Design a module of a bench. Deliver the project in a folder that contains an inspiration map, four different concepts of a module that can make 3 different combinations, a drawing of the module in a fitting environment and  a drawing of the module from every side with every measure. The module has to be placed outside in a park, therefore the chosen materials has to handle rough weather. The age group for the product is children.

 

Costume, Phantom of the opera

The next project in Scenography & Costume was to design a costume to the chosen play.

I chose to design a dress for the lead character, Christine Dae.

The fabric I used was chiffon, and i formed the dress by sewing it to chicken wire. The skirt is orange and the dress is red. I chose these colors to give the effect of energetic, bald, passionate, fire, and will therefore fit perfect to be worn in the scene where they perform the Phantoms own opera. The fabric I used is so elegant, soft, careful, so I decided to make some flowers of paper that I painted orange to get a contrast between the soft and the harsh.

I designed the dress and sew the dress all by my self 🙂 What do you think?

 

Abstracted baroque

 

 

Visual Arts: Chose a painting from the baroque. Abstract it. You can use both organic and geometric shapes. The painting has to be in acrylic painting.

Criteria: Use of color, technique, contrast, composition.

The size of the painting is 50 x 60.

 

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise” – Les Misérables

We got a new project in Design & Architecture:  Design a lamp and make a model of the final product. The main material you can use is paper. You deliver the project in a folder that has to contain an inspiration map, 20 sketches, a drawing of the lamp in a fitting environment and  a drawing of the lamp from every side with every measure.

The material I used was greaseproof paper. I used a racket and took away the strings and the handle so I only got the oval shape and  attached the paper to it. I cut out the letters of the greaseproof paper that made the quote: Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. I also took a yellow paper  and rolled it to a circle and placed it inside the lamp. By that, the light will be yellow and will shine through the letters and give a relaxing and comfortable light.

What do you think?

 

 

Bricks

A project in Visual arts: Choose a country. Paint the typical motives for that country in a pallet from the 50’s. The motives have to be abstracted.

Criteria: Use of right color, technique, composition and  is it abstracted.

What do you think? Do you see which country I chose.?

Revolving stage, “Phantom of the opera”

And here is the results:

Storyboard

Scenography & costume: Chose a known play, and make a modern twist to it.  The stage is a circle formed stage, that can turn to the left or right and the scene room will change. We could only make three scene rooms.

I chose “The phantom of the opera”.  The scene rooms that I chose to use is (from the top) the entry hall (where the masquerade scene is), the opera stage and the phantoms “cave”.

I got inspired from the opera in Sydney, and designed the fence on the balcony, that is on the top of the stairs, like the opera. the fence is made of glass, as well as the stairs. The stairs are held up by wires .

To “divide” the stage, i chose to use transparent fabric in different width  in yellow and in black.

 

Information desk 2

 

After we designed the information desk we made a prototype. By that we learned all the lines we have to draw on the drawing to understand how to build it. A very nice experience 🙂

 

Information desk

Our first autumn exam in Design & Architecture was to design an information desk for the Norwegian Tourist Association. Therefore we had to use typical norwegian materials, but at the same time give the desk a modern look. We had to draw the information-desk in a two point perspective and a drawing from every side with every measure. The criteria were creativity, functionality, proportions, perspective and technical design.  We got 5 hours.

I decided to use wooden planks in the front inspired from the norwegian fence called “Skigard”.
I used the typical norwegian stone called slate as a tabletop where the worker can stand and help people, and blue plexieglas  with a glass-fence where they can sit and work in private.

What do you think?

The 60’s and the 70’s

Our second project in Scenography  & Costume: make an informative  “poster” of the 60’s and the 70’s. with one glance at the “poster” you have to know immediately the interior, use of materials, and clothing.

We were supposed to work in pairs for this project. My partner ad I decided that since she’s in to fashion her job was to find out the typical features in the 60’s and 70’s clothing, and draw them. And since I am interested in interior I found pictures of furnitures, typical materials and use of color from the eras and arranged in to two rooms.

The 60’s: The room on the top and the woman to the right

The 70’s: The bottom room and the woman to the left

“You pull me out of the dark and now it’s light” – Slow club

My first project in Scenography & costume: Make a mask inspired from an insect. The criteria: The ability to develop your own work from the given assignment, documentation of the process, content/ expression, creativity and technical use.

Before we each handed in our mask, we painted our faces in a color that would fit the mask and put on a costume that will give an overall expression.

 

Spending more and more time with the school musical just gave me so much joy and strength. And suddenly one day i realized the musical group was my anchor point. And slowly the joy and the unity in the musical group dragged me out of the dark.

Reflective headset

We had a project in Design & Architecture where we had to design a reflective product for children/youth. The criteria were the idea, design-process, a justification of materials in the final product, right dimensions related to the target group and how the products is user-friendly.
Since the usual color for a reflex is  yellow, I decided that the rest of the headset would be purple, so they would be in complementary colors.

Axonometric perspective

Oslo 22. of July

Our first project in Visual arts was to make a collage of a worldwide news by using three different techniques. I chose the 22.07 terror attack that happened in Oslo summer of 2011. I wanted to make it like a memorial work. In the picture there is 77 roses, a rose for each person that got killed. And I chose to draw and paint hands that shows different cultures managing to live together. The techniques I used was acrylic painting, pencil and paper collage.

I didn’t manage to scan the whole picture, therefore the top is cropped 😛

The joy with clay (part three)

The joy with clay (part two)

The joy with clay

Finding the joy in the small things is something that I enjoy. Sitting on a roof on a hot summer day, with a lump of clay between my hands, feeling how it shapes, is an example. Is liberating, and can maybe even feel like meditating. So relaxing, fun and exiting at the same time.

Still life

This is two projects I have had in Visual arts last year. The first one is an exam.

(Since they are in size A3  I had to scan half of the picture at the time )

Experience the beauty in nature

Drowning

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop..

 

Never let another tell your soul what to fear – Switchfoot

Texture

On guarde

 

 

Having fun with macro!

Home

Joy

Exploring the garden

Oily marks

Yes, you! I’m looking at you!

Summer of 2011

The summer-vacation in 2011.
I can admit that I was nervous. For the first time after I got out of the wheel chair, I left for another country.  But I was prepared. I planed the days so I wouldn’t get exhausted, I left the room when it was too much noise, I slept or rested in the middle of the day and most important of all; I focused on doing things that make me happy. For example, when my family decided one day to go to the beach, I took with me my camera and photographed every thing that fascinated me. Here are some of the shots :

Happiness

If you try to see the beauty and the positivity in every thing, you’ll get closer to happiness

Invasion of unfamiliar feelings

 

“Sometimes pain becomes such huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t. But then one day you feel something else. Something that feels wrong, only because it’s so unfamiliar. And in that moment you realize you’re happy. ” OTH

One step at the time

Want to know a secret? I am a determent person. When I have a goal, I work as much as I can to reach it.

So when my goal was to be out of the wheelchair in May, I started to walk a bit every day and I dropped the wheelchair at school.

It’s May now, and I celebrated my 18th birthday without the wheelchair, and even danced!

Reaching for a goal

Photography & Print: Take a picture of whatever you want as long as you follow the criteria; composition, sharpness, use of color, lines or circles that gets repeated( create a good composition).

I was now at school everyday. I refused to bring the wheelchair to school and started to walk in the halls. Not in a normal tempo but slowly. When I have a goal, I work for it. And my goal was to dance and walk the day i turned  18. That’s 4 weeks from now.

“I’m the shell of a girl that I used to know well” -Christina Perri

“Broken pieces of a barley breathing story”

Frost

Project in Photography & Print: Make a seria of 5 photos. Every picture need to have something to do with each other, but can’t be identical.
Criteria: creativity, composition (in each and every picture), composition (all the picture together, technical skill, presentation.

Two weeks before we had this project my mom said to me that she is taking me to the mountain, so I can get some air. Because I’m spending too much inside sleeping. …
So we went for a hike in the mountains, with the chair. One thing that I have learned is that when your life is quite rough, you should do things that you like and make you happy. I really enjoy to photograph, so I took with me the camera to the mountain.
When I got the message two weeks later that we’re going to have a project with photography, I already had my pictures ready:)
I chose to have these pictures in this special order because then the colors is evenly distributed, there is balance in the picture and there is a line you can follow from one picture to another.





What do you think?

Portrait

In second year of Art School we had a new subject: Photography & Print. Our first task was to take a portrait of one person in the class, and manage to let the personality show. I paired up with Trond. He’s smart but sometimes a bit crazy.

Rose

I was now stuck in the wheelchair for a month, and it felt like the hope of getting healthier were taking away from me slowly.

In Design & Architecture the new project was to make a business card. It had to contain your initials, something that people associate with you, your whole name, phone number and mail. The picture I used for the business card is a picture i took in a hurry before school, and it turned out like this without any changes in photoshop! I got help from my best friend from the Netherlands with this card, and in the end it turned out quite good. The look of the business card was my inspiration for the layout on the homepage.

What do you think?

A song I listened to a lot at this time, and still do is “Canon in D” by Johann Pachelbel. By now, I have learned to play this song on piano.To listen to this song inspires me a lot:)