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Hyperrealism can be found everywhere, and is highly present today. I think hyperrealism is a state or dimension which is about depiction/portrayal of something as something more perfect that reality. It's about perfection in every field; how things look, act, feel. Superficiality is also sort of hyperrealism. I find a lot of hyperrealism in advertising and TV shows; "desperate housewives" is a prime example.

In art I think hyperrealism can be about using this kind of dimension to express something (anything), different than the kind of superficial perfection that hyperrealism is in the commercial world. If that is the case, it means also that hyperrealism has nothing to do with photorealism.

I started painting reflections because they where extremely beautiful. Undiscovered live phenomenons right there in front of me. I have been thinking about why I like them so much. There is something very special about the image that occurs when buildings lit up by sunlight are projected and twisted on a car standing in the shade under the buildings on a street. The image appears so real. This I interpret as a sort of "hyperrealism".
But not that there is a world there beyond the existing one (like I think "Orange building on a car" and maybe "Fluid buildings with alien elements" depicts themselves), rather that there are images appearing of obvious causes which in scenarios as the one presented above appear as images more real than the surrounding reality.

I take a photo of a car reflection and the "hyperreality" of it is reduced, the picture achieves a photographic dimension. By painting a hyperrealist (as a "style") painting of it, I have a chance to express the hyperreal dimension of the experience that the reflection images can give in the real life. In my opinion I have so far managed this the best in "White and brown" [link] , or actually Parking, although it is just a street scene to other people.
Right now I'm thinking that maybe my paintings are interpretations of the theme hyperrealism as art, but I am experimenting with different themes and phenomenons, such as abstraction versus reality, transparency, layering, glossyness...

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Hello I haven't been much active here for a while. I'm still painting, and I keep coming up with new and more advanced views of what I do and how I can develop it further. Yesterday I had another 'revelation' which I found particulary interesting, to put it simple it has to to with the spatial qualities of the reflection motifs. Too bad I haven't found time to pull through all of the different ideas. I'm now thinking that the paintings you know, the car reflections are just for technical practice, and while doing them it also makes me think a lot about where it can be going I think it's going to be a lifelong process with no particular aim.
Other than that the rest of last year was great. I was on a spectacular Muse concert and a fantastic class trip to Iceland! School has been just as great as before and with increasing intensitivity towards the end of the studio course. We don't get grades, but I have been getting awesome feedback Architecture has occupied a lot of my mind and there are so much to think about, and of course to see! Every building and space and even pieces of landscape is interesting and has their own qualities on different levels. Taking the bus or the sub and just getting from a place to an other is .. I don't know - but the opposite of 'nothing special' or 'something you just don't think about' like it used to be.
I have always prefered modern architecture, and found anything from before 1920's totally uninteresting and often ugly, but now I have gained new interest and respect for everything. Though I still find a modern airport or cultural building of some sort in general FAR more beautiful than some neo classic library or baroque castle!! The worst 'architecture' there is are buildings built today, made to look like anything from before 1920's. Pathetic and unecessary. One of architecture's primary ideological functions are IMO to reflect the time it's made, the zeitgeist.
Some of my favorite contemporary architects must be Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid and Snøhetta.

I have been extremely busy lately. I feel like there has been no freetime in weeks, although a big part of me is enjoying it We have been given a semester assignment at the architect school; each of us will project a room for an old text from the 1600th century, in a museum called Storhamarlåven in Hamar, drawn by the famous norwegian architect Sverre Fehn.
On Oct. 2nd we will have presentations of the first stage of the assignment, where we are to introduce our personal registrations of the qualities from that museum. We started this first stage by visiting it, and simply exploring it a whole day. We also had to make a model/sculpture that "shows the meeting of two different materials". I made a concrete bloc with a thick glass plate in it
I, as most others in the class, have been working on these things until 5-6pm at school every day. The school is open 24/7. We have also started up with "material technology" which is very interesting
After I come home from school, I spend the rest of the day painting. I'm going to have a local exhibition of my work from 10 years ago till today on Oct. 6th in the west of country where I used to live before I came to Oslo.
I'm also going to a Muse concert on Oct. 23rd
In Nov. 30th - Dec. 3rd we are going on a class trip to Reykjavík, Iceland!! I have always wanted to go there The trip is not organized by the school, but by us students in 1st grade ourselves. We all have purchased the flight tickets already, so it's definately happening. We're selling cakes every week to get the costs down a bit.

We have had lots of interesting and fun stuff before all this too. We had the "Oslo week" where we explored our city in many ways. We got to go to many special places, like the top of many of Oslo's buildings and get awesome new views of the city, and behind the scenes of Oslo's main concert/event hall Oslo Spektrum, and the national TV station NRK. Then we've had different workshops for the whole school to extend the social connections, and many pub nights. This has without a doubt been my best school year ever already after 1 month