Sunday Morning Thoughts

I have just ordered the movie "The Cove". I can´t wait to see it, and I am sure it will be a sight for sore eyes. Most of you already know by now that I have always had a love for dolphins and the water world. It started as a little girl. I called them "Fälldiner", a cloning of words as dolphis in swedish are Delfiner, and at the time we had a primeminister named "Fälldin". I must have been 7 or so. A few years later my family and I went on a sailing cruise down to Portugal. It was an old beautidul ship called "Tironga". As we left the harbour of Gothenburg, and got out a little further, dozens of bottlenose dolphins came to play by the boat. They are facinating creatures, and the ocean is a fascinating place. Just think about it. There´s a huge world down there that we, even today with all our technical equipment, don´t know anything about. There are aminals down there we have never seen. A grand percentage of the bottom of the ocean is not explored, We can´t find technology to get us down ther...but what we CAN do, it to use it as a trashcan. Since it will always look as beautiful on the surface, the waves that come and go and the shimmer om the water as the sun sets...you know.....but underneath....How does it look? Why are we so stupid that we dump our shit in the ocean and pretend nothing is going to happen, and that it will never come up to the surface?? Of course it will, It has no other place to go.
Us, human beings clame to be on top of the food chain. Unfortunately some of us think that we are smarter than the rest of the living mammals on this planet aswell.
I find evidence every single day in the morning paper, that shows that such is not the case.
We put ourselves on the side of everything else that is happening in the world. Like we are totally separated from it.
When shall we wake up to the fact that we are living in interaction with earth, with the air we breathe, water we drink, earth that gives us food we grow and so on and so on. Earth is a smart and well designed creation down to every little seed.
It is trying to work in it´s perfection, and will do so in the future , if we don´t come and fuck it up. We have already made an impressive mess.
There are so many dumb things we humiliate us with on a daily basis , we just don´t se it. Yet.... Manipulating nature and animals to reach a higher profit. Here we go, It´s all about the money....and we are STUPID enough NOT to put an end to it.
Yesterday I read in the morning paper of a new, kontroversial way of breeding cheep. The ewe will get hormone treatments so that she can give birth 3 times a year instead of once.
The lamb will grow up to get killed and never see daylight. So, here we go, Human beings acting God, trying to change the laws of nature once again. It´s perverted.
The second thing is...This hormone they give, a synthetic version of progresteron called Chronogest...probably stays in the meat of the animal. And then YOU who will eat this will get it in your system. So..if your a man, discovering you just got boobs..you now know why :):):)

Mr Sailor-man

Took a walk in the fab spring weather, in-between the painting sessions.

Now..I just quite a bit of paint, so I get a little dizzy and start seeing thing....but tell me, Can you see him??? .

He just stood there, looking like an old sailor with a friendly face. Tomorrow he has faded in the sun......that´s your faith when your a snowman in spring.

The ASTRODOGS are born

I have been working on this other side kick of mine a few years now. It´s a company I started called Astrodogs. My friend Tanja who has a company, DogArtist, asked me to design dog collars. It sounded like fun, I went home thinking and then all sorts of strange ideas popped up. The toughts of IF astrology really is applicable on dogs? regardless of breed? God knows, but the more I thought of it the more fun it got, so I contacted a friend of mine who is an astrologer, and she helped me out writing this first product...a Dogoscope!! The book is just being translated into english, so for now it´s for you swedish reading folks....

I´m continuing with the Astrodogs, and we are having wild plans for the future. Not only dog stuff, but also products for kids. Since I am extremely childish along with the illustrations:)

Jonas Rahm is the genius behind the pictures. I just love them.

We will also make sure that x amount of sales goes to our Astrodog Foundation to support different programs and project supporting the dog (animal)-human connection. There are a zillion good project on how to make this world we live in more loving (I was just about to write human...but I have strong doubts about the being human part....is it really a good thing?? Look at what we manage to create to the world and to it´s inhabitants?? We can do better)

In sweden we have something called " dog on receipt" so you can actually instead of taking pills, get help from having a dog with you to cheer up your world. Also all the nice projects where you bring dogs to the home for the elderly, also in re-habilitation in prisons etc etc.

Not to mention, as we are not only focusing on the dogs..there are also so many necessary organizations acting for the good of children. So there´s lot´s to do! We are setting up the web site www.astrodog.se and www.astrodogs.com if you wanna follow the development of this endless project:) Much lov eto you all, now I´m heading to the studio for some painting:):):)

Peace Out!!!

tuesday thoughs

Just came back to the south of Sweden, after weeks in Stockholm. it´s hard to describe what happens to me when I come back here....but it sort of feels like "landing". It is so peaceful and quiet, except that I might hear 2 cars a day passing by. Snow is just disappearing and small flowers will fight to reach out and up towards the sun. Yesterday I had the first feeling of spring, like I had when I was young. You know the day when you can put on your sneakers instead of heavy snow boots. I am looking for flowers in my garden but it is a bit to early, or is it that spring is late? Snowstorm in Barcelona and mother nature has turned us all upside down. Global warming or not - something is happening.

Here, in this sleepy village, I am left to myself. Here I have to seek what it is I have within that urges to come out. Sometimes it is scary, when your facing a white piece of paper, or a white canvas and I just don´t know where to start. Or don´t know if anything will come out at all. Sometimes it is scary. To be creative can be seen as a gift, by many, but also a curse, and the different wars that go on within. Those you can never see on the outside. My acting teacher in LA gave me a book called " The war of art" I can highly recommend it. Actually, I should go ready some pages right now........