Not what mother intended*
In the late 1990s Iceland had one of the highest rates of teenage substance use in Europe. Parents were worried. Schools were struggling. Traditional prevention …
Theory
Artists are not paid
Artists are the only people in the arts community that are not paid*.*An observation. Generally, an artist works alone. For this discussion I am talking …
Almost confounding
Art comes from within, through expressing your truth and unique perspective – Mahwish Khan Most of my work is abstract in a sense. Sometimes I …
Why do I prefer sculpture
Sculpture is like a journey. You have a different view as you return. The three-dimensional world is full of surprises in a way that a …
Tenuous connections
Ideas come in all sorts of ways. Sometimes I dream something, or wake up with a vision I’ve never had before. Other times something I …
A small history of letting go
When an artist makes something there is a timeline of sorts, from notion to completion. It goes something like this: idea – time spent thinking …
Trust. Or the loss of.
In whatever country we live in, we trust our government to look after us. If we live in a dictatorship, we maybe trust our local …
What does success mean?
To me, specifically. Which might be different from societies’ idea of success. Let’s start with why I make art. That’s easy – I don’t have …
The challenge
‘If you want to create something, keep resisting the mediocrity, the ordinary things.’ – Yohji Yamamoto I know I’ve talked about this before… here are …
Nobody but myself
‘To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight …