Hey there from the studio!
We are currently making our way through the second night in a row to finish up a series of project before July is over. From the 1st of August we are starting a project called Rydd Møre, which will be our biggest undertaking by far.... Recently I feel like posting pictures I have just been shooting, even though I still got so many stories to share from our last time on the road. I guess it is, because the day and time here now passes in such an interesting manner that I am just about enough occupied right here in these moments. Yeah, and by the way, this is Daniel, my co-producer and one of many partners in crime. We have spent no more then 1,5 month working together, but it already feels like ages to be honest.
are we ever truly home, or are we bound to find ourselves in set up shelters all over the place? One thing that can feel so dear one single second can completely fall apart the next. Neither people, surroundings or things you do, can ever bring you true safety. Only your mind can.
Fully listening to my emotions and feelings has a taken me a big step closer to finding that safety and peace during the last months. And believe it or not, that same peace seems to have given me a huge creative pull. Instead of taking on new huge projects, I manage to rather focus on completing the ones I have been working on for years. At the same time, I try making space and room for day to day accomplishment. Ideas that shouldn't be bigger than a little apple, and which should be pulled through and eaten in an according speed.
Lolaaaaa <3
Think this was the 4th or 5th picture I shot on my Cosina 35mm. We were out in the fields outside of Berlin, smoking a little in a beautiful sunset and Lola was just hanging around looking for mice (and being annoyed that I disturbed her hunt..) Sitting in almost 30 degrees inside our studio at @ldnorway . Monday has taken us like a big hot monsoon and we are all just hard-core hanging our heads in our laptops to try to get around all the work that is waiting. I was nagging abit arund this morning as I felt we were hanging behind on a few things, but after a little team meeting it all feels much better. Soon I'll jump out and join in on my first football training in 6 years. Exited to have things going again..
The days go by here in the @ldnorway studio and slowly I am having time to reflect upon the many journeys we did during the recent years. Probably got around 4000hours of film and each many afternoons are dedicated towards slowly cutting together all the episodes that will form the #TimeToLive series.
These shots are #35mm from east Germany in April.
To be honest, I got no shimmer where I took this photo. Could be at the the German harbour before crossing into Sweden in April after a long and cosy winter down South.
The reason I felt like sharing it just now? After a long day building the studio here in Alesund, me and Ann Sylvia (and Lola) went on a little beer date down the road. On our way we met some old friends, had a look around in a little too familiar city and eventually landed on a bench to take in the slow norwegian summer sunset with one passion infused very sour beer and one double ipa. Just when we sat down my mom called and one of the questions she rised was; do you still date when you are married? Hehe. Well its not a date in that sense. More of a reunion. Bringing together our minds without having to deal with any bigger purposes. I sat drawing, Ann Sylvia drew a little too and about halfway in the date, we found ourselves nagging around slightly complaining about eachothers behaviour. 20min later we stood kissing in the sunset around the corner.... Bottom line. We have moved back to a city which we know too well, and while many people would consider this a quite boring step back from adventuring the world, quite opposingly we have taken the adventure with us. Every corner feels new, every second exciting. Stress is there, so is joy too. And wherever we we are, we do what we do.
XO, much love to these two loving lovebirds
