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hold it together part company with a terrifying roar?
This knowledge is secret and can possibly be ignored. In other words, the
paintings do not distinguish themselves very much from life in general.
When something actually happens in our surroundings we are often not
there but find ourselves a little to the side, like spectators somewhere on the
horizon; a thought that may seem frustrating.
But something remarkable happens when one is faced with these
paintings of fusion and transformation. In the seascape we feel ourselves to
be part of a larger life cycle and community; a section of nature, though
certainly an unpredictable one. Yet it seems as though we cannot help being
possessed by the magnificence and the simplicity.
SOPHIE ALLGÅRDH
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