synopsis
The sketchbook as a medium is never concluding or insisting on any final answer, but is an investigating medium in itself. I use my sketchbook to learn, asking and trying to answer those questions that never can or will have any final answers.
This is a sneakpeak on my coming book, Sleeping State of Being, which is book number two in my series of reproduced sketchbooks, following my first published book Fractal State of Being (Journal 2014).
This is a sneakpeak on my coming book, Sleeping State of Being, which is book number two in my series of reproduced sketchbooks, following my first published book Fractal State of Being (Journal 2014).
The book will be reproduces and published in the same small edition as last book on 750 copies.
In this book I look closer at different levels of consciousness. I am in particular looking at the term sleep. From ordinary sleep with dreams, to old mystical ideas that tells us that the human, also while awake, is in a form of sleep-like state. That this explains why we act the way we do.
Trough my own experience I ask if dreams, mythological creatures and collective underconsciousness, possibly have any connection. Because why do a person(me) in 2020 dream about heavy symbols from the past, and unfamiliar creatures which I only later, find all over the mythologic stories? And why are the creatures in mythology and archetypes the same in stories from all over the world? Does it exist a collective underconsciousness? And does that have any connection with the fact that archetypes and the mythological creatures often are the same from all parts of the world? Are these creatures and symbols timeless, or simply part of our psychology?
In this book I look closer at different levels of consciousness. I am in particular looking at the term sleep. From ordinary sleep with dreams, to old mystical ideas that tells us that the human, also while awake, is in a form of sleep-like state. That this explains why we act the way we do.
Trough my own experience I ask if dreams, mythological creatures and collective underconsciousness, possibly have any connection. Because why do a person(me) in 2020 dream about heavy symbols from the past, and unfamiliar creatures which I only later, find all over the mythologic stories? And why are the creatures in mythology and archetypes the same in stories from all over the world? Does it exist a collective underconsciousness? And does that have any connection with the fact that archetypes and the mythological creatures often are the same from all parts of the world? Are these creatures and symbols timeless, or simply part of our psychology?
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technical information
Publisher : Gösta Flemming
Year : 2022
Language : english
Pages : 64 - 135 color photos
Dimensions : 20,5 x 29,5 cm
Year : 2022
Language : english
Pages : 64 - 135 color photos
Dimensions : 20,5 x 29,5 cm
about Terje Abusdal
Sara Skorgan Teigen (1984, Oslo, Norway) is an interdisciplinary artist, with a base in photography, installation, textile and the artist`s book. She studied at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography, Copenhagen (2008/09) and the ICP, International Center of Photography, New York, (2011/12), has a BA in Medium and Material based art at The National Academy of the Arts, Oslo (2018-2023), where she is currently doing a MFA. She has exhibited internationally at galleries, museums, photo-festivals, fairs and biennales in Europe, USA and Asia. (USA, Tokyo, China, Mexico, England, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Norway). She is represented by NW Gallery (DK).
Her two books Fractal State Of Being (2014) and Sleeping State of Being (2022), Journal has been exhibited on three continents and has received several prices internationally.
Among some, Paris Photo-Aperture Photo-book Awards, Author Book Award in Les Rencontres d´Arles, Best Photography Book of the Year Award, The PHE15 and top 10 photobooks by Photoeye (USA). Teigen makes site specific installations with the artist`s book in centrum. In 2019 Teigen transformed NW Gallery in Copenhagen to a sketchbook itself, and her last book is exhibited among textile works, last shown in The Vigeland Museum in Oslo. She is currently Artist of the Season in Concertgebouw Brugge, (BE).
Among some, Paris Photo-Aperture Photo-book Awards, Author Book Award in Les Rencontres d´Arles, Best Photography Book of the Year Award, The PHE15 and top 10 photobooks by Photoeye (USA). Teigen makes site specific installations with the artist`s book in centrum. In 2019 Teigen transformed NW Gallery in Copenhagen to a sketchbook itself, and her last book is exhibited among textile works, last shown in The Vigeland Museum in Oslo. She is currently Artist of the Season in Concertgebouw Brugge, (BE).
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Publisher : Gösta Flemming
Year : 2022
Language : english
Pages : 64 - 135 color photos
Dimensions : 20,5 x 29,5 cm
Year : 2022
Language : english
Pages : 64 - 135 color photos
Dimensions : 20,5 x 29,5 cm