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WHAT KIND OF LINES UNDER THE SEED´S CAPSULE? 2017 ACRYLIC, COPPER, OXIDIZED SILVER AND «In Memoria» of a beloved person.
COPPER 62.9X47.2 IN. | 160X120 CM.
FINE ART CULTURE RESTS IN ITSELF, 2019 ACRYLIC, ALUMINUM, COPPER, INTERFERENCE COLOR, METAL DUST 59X43.3 IN. |
150X110 CM.
BROKEN LOOSE, 2017 ACRYLIC, ALUMINUM, METAL DUST 47.2X39.3 IN. | 120X100 CM.

INANNA, 2017 ACRYLIC, OXIDIZED SILVER, METAL DUST, INTERFERENCE COLOUR 59X42.5 IN. | 150X108 CM.

GRO FOLKAN
Lives and works in Tromsoe and outside Oslo, Norway
https://www.grofolkan.no

Creativity is not so much about imagination as listening. It is between the flower and the butterfly, and we discover a new
about having one eye and ear inward and one eye and ear aspect of reality that we did not notice before. I have found that
outward. I see my paintings as gates, entrances to a language in when I enter these gates, I experience a new state of mind, a
between. The space between thoughts. There is a famous haiku new connection, because I am also part of nature. My paintings
poem that describes a flower falling from a branch, and then are gates, instruments. The real images are not the ones on my
rising again. Is it a butterfly? We are drawn into the moment canvases, but the ones that emerge in the mind of the viewer.

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