BEAUTY: Photography--Linda Westin

Stockholm-based photographer Linda Westin took a detour into science and obtained a PhD in neuroscience, specializing in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, a technique that allows scientists to illuminate the structures inside cells by making them glow under specific wavelengths. She now uses this same idea to photograph trees and plants in dense natural settings. Her work is startling and enigmatic, and her images play as though they are illustrations from fairytale stories about magical forests full of night time intrigue and possible dangers ... Where The Wild Things Might Be ...

https://www.instagram.com/_cometalktome_/

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Kim Simonsson

Finnish sculptor Kim Simonsson currently has a solo exhibition of his enchanting yet slightly ominous moss people (children) at the Galerie Forsblom in Stockholm, Sweden through March 18, 2018.

Entitled, "Treasure Hunters," the exhibition press release says:
"With references to fairytale characters, manga films and computer games, Kim Simonsson´s (b. 1974) sculptures are very distinctive. Simonsson portrays magical little figures with black eye sockets, covered with a layer of what appears to be moss. These dreamy figures are a touch gruesome, yet simultaneously fragile and frail. The handmade ceramic stoneware sculptures are encased in a layer of nylon fiber in a nearly fluorescent shade of green. For the exhibition at Galerie Forsblom in Stockholm, Simonsson has also created glazed sculptures with a gold and platinum sheen, as well as a bronze sculpture.

The sculptures all share an appearance that is solitary and a little sad, tinged with a sense of uncertainty. Who are they, and where are they going? In folklore, the moss people are described as helpful to people such as farmers, with an ability to cure diseases. They may borrow things from people occasionally, but always return them with a good advice or a gift, which should be received with gratitude to prevent them from becoming angry. The moss sculptures Simonsson depicts are frozen in position, yet also heading somewhere. As the exhibition title reveals, they are 'Treasure Hunters': they carry something that is precious."

They remind me of The Lost Boys in JM Barrie's PETER PAN...dressed in clothing of the civilized Western World but sporting feathers and hides and animals with suitcases and objects tied on with rope. They feel like children gone feral.

"A strange, enchanted sadness runs through Mr. Simonsson's work, as though he were trying to connect to some abandoned magical place in his own psyche."
Ken Johnson

http://www.kimsimonsson.com

You can buy his book TALES OF THE MOSS PEOPLE here:
https://kimsimonsson.ecwid.com/

BEAUTY: Watercolor and Ink--Emma Larsson

Emma Larsson uses watercolor and ink on paper to create some beguiling abstract, doodle-y images that are at once biomorphic and seemingly figurative.

https://www.instagram.com/zebrakadebra/

She is represented by Wood Society.
https://www.wood-society.com/artists#/emma-larsson/

Indefinite Vases by Studio E.O.

It is easy to forget that glass is not a solid--it is a a liquid. And these marvelous vases by Erik Olovsson of Studio E.O. in Stockholm bring that point home. I love how each vase has been blown to drape, droop, slip, or slide over a gorgeous polished piece of marble, granite, or onyx. Playful, whimsical, and biomorphic.

http://studioeo.se/