#74 EIGHT PICTURES PER YEAR! LESS IS MORE
On today’s episode, the surreal world of Erik Johansson, a Swedish born photographer and visual artist, who produces eight fantastical pictures per year, personal projects that hang in galleries and private collections around the world.
Many of his works are driven by studying books written and illustrated for children and I can understand exactly how that must have inspired a wandering and wonderful mind. In my childhood, giant peaches, and chocolate factories where you could eat the very rooms you walked through fired up my creative imagination each night at bedtime, and Quentin Blake’s loose, free and easy pen illustrations brought many of these stories alive for me, cartoon like drawings where anything could happen, shape not following convention. I’m still left wondering if the author wrote with those drawings in mind? I read a Guardian article about Blake that says it all; “He does smelliness well.” And he does, which seems a strange thing to say about ink on a page.
Though Erik’s pictures are photographic and born from computing power, his own inventions take on timeless narratives too that I have pored over since being introduced to his work.
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Erik Johansson behind the scenes films
