✿ 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊? ✿

❀༉‧₊˚.⋆˚✿˖°⋆⊹.ೃ࿔*:･°❀:･☘ ❀

What kind of flower are you?

I think am I a cornflower, sometimes I am a forget me not. Others I am giant hydrangea, but never a carnation.

❀𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝒹❀

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When painting these flowers I was thinking about all the flower motives in folk art, still lives, patterns, decorations, often considered to be deeply unserious and feminine, I love them even more for that. Last week at Oslo Zine Fest an artist saw this zine and she said she could sense some rage in the flowers. I think she is somehow right. I also thought of my grandmothers and great grandmothers and my Mum, planting flowers, talking to them. These drawings are all of these thoughts and also just sweet flowers. Because everything seems to be better with some flowers.

I made these ink paintings based on the photos of flowers in my phone and memories. Drawn in A6, and put together into a zine, scale 1:1 on pink and yellow paper. I am really excited to be making zines, this one doesn’t have a clear narrative but for me it somehow does, on a feeling level. It’s so enjoyable to be making zines, it’s so playful and feeds into the aspects of creative practice I enjoy the most. Especially the material and tactile part! I am so excited to share these zines also here on substack, I hope to find a fun way to do it. I love how other fantastic designers and artists are exploring this space. :) What do you think? And most importantly…

What kind of flower are you?