Some reflections - “The Sacred Space”
Photo credit: Theodora Dea
The love in the room was truly special
Gallery OMK, Briskeby
24th - 28th of May 2025
Some reflections… I am beyond G R A T E F U L L for all your love and support for my solo exhibition «The Sacred Space» - thank you so much for attending. My heart and soul is full with wonderful memories that will stay with me forever.
I am truly proud of my self that I had the courage to have a solo exhibition. In all honesty I must admit that the exhibition came with a very high price health wise, abut I am sure the magic moments will prevail in the long run.
There are so many impressions that need to be digested, but I just wanted to share some pictures from the preparations for the exhibition, the exhibition itself and some thoughts.
I really wanted the exhibition to be an overall experience, not just about an art piece hanging on a wall. I wanted to incorporate the “whole me” and share my Sacred Space from art making (that I have loved since childhood), arranging flowers, Mother Earth, origami, crystals, pearls and food.
Pearls often symbolize purity, wisdom, love and elegance. Origami swans (cranes) often symbolize peace, eternal love, good luck and wishes coming true. Poppies often symbolize deep and passionate love, sleep, peace, death and resurrection.
When it comes to poppies I have my own interpretation as you can read below, but resurrection is definitely part of it. The common denominator for my sacred space is LOVE and my oh my did I feel the LOVE!
Pictures from the preparation for the exhibition - all hands on deck
Pictures of some drawings from when I was a child. As you can see I have always loved colors, flowers and Mother Earth - and the 4 last pictures made at the age of 3 are respectively: “old pine”, “swan”, “pop corn II” and “pop corn I”. I know, it was needless to say, right?!?
… a huge shout out to my family and friends that made all the food, installed the art and helped during the exhibition and afterwards - I could not have done it without you! THANK YOU!
As I have written before I desperately need this blog and my IG-account to be my happy place and not write about/show my illness. My pain is present 24/7 and art making is my happy place where I try my very best to escape reality, if only for a few minutes. My illness is invisible for the outside world, but sometimes it shows, as here after the exhibition. I have been hesitant to post this picture, but I wanted to make one exception from my rule because I also believe in honesty and showing reality.
In my adult life - after the accident and the chronic illness - my mantra has been “you can bend, but not break”. The inspiration behind my “P O P P Y love collection” is just that: you can bend, but not break. If you have seen poppies in a storm you will understand what I mean. The poppies have a thin stem and quite a huge “head” and when the storm comes the poppies bend in the wind, almost lying down on the ground, but the next day the poppies are still standing ever so bright. And so am I, and so are you. Even though it does not feel like that always… But as I just learned from a wise friend; the road in life can be like a big knot with lots of curls and not always easy to see the way. But:
“As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears”
Picture of my muse and first P O P P Y love taken the day after a storm
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing”
And last, but not least…
… a heartfelt and warm thank you from the bottom of my heart and the deepest of my soul to my collectors - I am so proud, happy, deeply honored and humble that my art will hang on your wall (or on the wall of someone special to you). It is truly quite magic and a wonderful feeling. The love I feel for you all is everything, thank you, thank you, thank you.
PS! My newsletter for “The Sacred Season of Spring” is being sent out the 20 th of June. If you want to learn more about the sacred season of spring, “shinrin yoku”, “solvitur ambulando” and read more about the “The Sacred Space”, please sign up for the newsletter by entering your mailadress under “subscribe”.
Love and light, until next time (sometime in august as my sankalpa for the summer is “offline living”), MC
Happy rested summer, dear you!
* from my favorite book "A foot and lighthearted" by Bonnie Smith Whitehouse
