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​A World of Contrasts

- living in layers
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I’m fascinated by contrasts – the delicate balance between what we choose and what life chooses for us, the visual contrasts and the deeply human layers. The kind that show up in our daily choices and quiet contradictions.  

Like knowing the state of the climate and wanting to live sustainably, yet walking out of Zara with a new jacket and board a flight for the sake of convenience. Like knowing what´s healthy for body and mind, but also crave the unhealthy. Like being both extrovert and introvert, both confident and insecure, both lonely and surrounded by good people. Like embrasing my moral compass but push back when things become overly politically correct.

The contrasts and layers are many – and not all of them are within our control. Some are shaped by conscious choices, some by random turns. I find that tension fascinating – the interplay between what we choose, what happens to us, and what simply is.

I also find beauty in the visual contrasts – in decay and growth, in waste and reuse, in fragility and resistance. I’m drawn to textures that tell stories of time, and materials that carry traces of something discarded, transformed, or rediscovered.

These are the tensions I explore in my art, where I use layers, contrast, and imperfection as tools. I illustrates contrast not to divide, but to hold space for honesty and paradoxes of human nature – and  making space for complexity, doubt and duality.

Maybe something in this space will mirror a part of you too?

When I was a little girl...

In the past when I was a little girl, my granddad sat by his oversized workingtable, drawing Donald Duck for the magazine. I only have a few memories I can remember from my childhood - but this is one of them, I think - me standing spellbound by the enormous table, watching my granddad totally immersed in his work. I never found that special kind of peace and contemplation myself until I started painting again as an adult. My distracted head found a vessel for contemplation.

Thanks for stopping by 

Kristine Rydahl

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Questions? - write me at kristinerydahl@gmail.com or DM via Insta @rydahl_art

By Kristine Rydahl - @rydahl_art

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