OUT in space

Is there something up there or not?

What are we going to take when our soul leaves our body? An elevator, stairs, a bridge, a space-car, we don't know.

On my way to Switzerland we passed the huge bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen.

I was exhited to drive over the bridge and couldn't just let it go to take this picture through the car window.

A blue sky, white and grey clouds and those wires.... are we going to lift up and disappear in the clouds? Or does it look like a giant insect with his arms on earth trying to get food? Turn your head and see what kind of emotions you get from that angle. If you have fantasy you can travel much more and see more things. And if you feel like I do, I can see things referring to death and rebirth all the time. I might getting patetic. You have to deal with that for a while, coz. this is how I feel. Everything gets another dimension.

SNART SOMMAR

Nu är det snart sommar igen och äntligen!

I Schweiz var det mellan 25-30 graders varmt, och man svättade bara att vara.

Jag är så glad när jag kom till Sverige igen, mitt hem. Jag kunde andas och ljuset på himmelen var så vackert. Solen sken och fåglarna sjöng och bilen rasade förbi Hallands landskåp som jag älskar så mycket.

Jag delar med mig en bild som jag tog för några år sedan uppe mot Stockholmstrakterna. Det var sommar och skönt varmt. Jag valde en kvadratisk beskärning för bilden, då det passar bäst för de horizontala linjer som finns i bilden.

Det är verkligen dags att gå ut och fota sommarbilder.

LEFTOVERS

I am back in Sweden now. The last 2 weeks I was in my hometown Lugano in the southern of Switzerland to take care of the leftovers of my dear mother Marianne.

It has been a hard time going from happy moments to completely emptyness inside of me. My camera helped me during this time, as well as my brothers Giovanni and Emanuele, my very good friends and my mothers friends and my wonderful partner.

Many thoughts passed my mind since she left. In May I visited her in the hospital and I did not realize (I did not wanted) that she was going. I remember taking some funny pictures together in the hospital. She also made funny faces in front of the camera and we took a last picture together. Then before putting aside the camera I took this picture. Was I realizing unconsciously that yes, the time had come?

A plastic mug with cold tea, some unused glasses and bunches of pills. It was indeed time to go. I know MAMMA that you are much happier now where you are.

But I miss you soooooooooo much!

I will continue taking pictures, because it's my life! Even though it's hard these days. But I will be strong and continue my way as YOU always wanted me to go.

CIAO MAMMA

Monday, 25th of May 2009, 9.10 passed my mother away.

A shock, somehow unexptected. She is gone.

How to deel with this news?

Did I understood right on the phone? Dead..... "morta" said my sister on the phone.

I just didn't wanted to get it into me. "What dead" - I answered, I talked to her

last night and she was fine?

"Morta, la mamma è morta!"

The world crashed for me. She who has always been there for me, who has been

father and mother to me, a friend, MY FAMILY.

Alone, desperate, what is there a meaning to continue without her? Stupid words and thoughts.

It's a completely mess... in my mind, in my heart, in everything.

I am scared. Scared to come down to Lugano, where I was born, where my wonderful and loved mother lived. Scared to enter her apartment without her. Scared of touching her things, have to decide to give them away, choose who gets what, deal with the papers. I have never been so scared in my life...

Never Give Up

No matter what is going on

Never Give Up

from the IXVth Dalai Lama

I will do my best. I don't know when I will be able again to get back to what I was before. Time will tell. So my friends, I will disappear for a while and hopefully come back in July with new pictures. For the moment it's hard to think that I will take some good pictures, but maybe I will, maybe she will guide me to even better ones.

MAMMA, GRAZIE

thank you for being the person you are

for the love you gave to everybody,

the positivity you spread in the world,

Thank you for EVERTHING you did for me

and THANK YOU for being in me and believing in me.

Love you forever and see you again in our next life together.

OLD MEMORIES

Painter in Paris at Mont-Martre.

I nearly forgot that I had those negatives in my refrigerator. My good friend Peter got them to scan them and here I share with you some old pictures.

This is one of my first model pictures when I started. It was very fun by then to find out how the models should pose.

UOMO 9th of May 2009

GALLERI BOB

It was meant to be a success......at least for me it was.

At 11.00 I arrived at the gallery and prepared the chocolates, the strawberries, the drinks. Finally at 12.00 the first guests arrived and they arrived all the time until 17.00 when we closed the gallery.

Wonderful chocolates from Emma's Chokolaterie http://www.emmaschoklad.se/ helped the visitors to discover my pictures. Two of our most important senses were that way connected to eachother.

On display 10 photographs:

Spider on canvas

Strawberry magnum on photopaper with a white frame

Luna 1, Luna 2, Mercurio, Drop, Gluteux, Maximus, Golden Back, Empty World and Matrix are printed on aluminiumplate with a layer of silver or gold.

A very special and unique technique that a man, called Mats did for me.

People looked astonished at the pictures and so did I when I got them. Very special. So, if you don't want to miss that effect, go and see the exhibition. Fr and saturday from 12-17 is Galleri Bob open.

HELPING HANDS

To make it possible for "Empty World" to stick out, we sticked on the wall a black studio background.


It's practically impossible to have an exhibition without having helping hands.

My dear friend Greta came last week on thursday and helped me out hanging the pictures. We started at 13.00 and finished at 1.00 that night. Later in the afternoon even Kåre came by. We had a dinner stop at our place before going on until late.

But the result was marvellous.

Haky the responsible of the gallery was also there helping me out.

Thank you guys!!

UOMO

It's time now...... 2 hours to go to the opening of the vernissage. I am printing out the last sheets and preparing other small things also for the lotteri. Yes, you have the chance to win one of my pictures!

My stomach is having a pretty good time, I thought it would be worse, but my nerves are holding. The pictures have been hanging in the gallery since thursday night. We finished friday morning at 12.45. Greta my good friend helped me so much and we turned the gallery into a really cool place, if I can say so.

I try to stay humble and sometimes, I do proudly look at the pictures and wonder if it was really me making them. It's a weird feeling. And then people come and say "Oh, they are great" and I just have a hard time to get it into me..."are they really so great?". Is it like this artists feel like? Will they ever be satisfied 100% for what they do?

Good friends arrived from Holland, my photographer friend Richie with his wife Sidka. Cool, thinking about that friends do travel so long to come and see your exhibition.

Mats, who did all the pictures was astonished and said that in 40 years of his work, these pictures were something special and they should actually been hanged on "Konstmuseet", the art museum. And now, me little Cornelia, should take this as a huuuuuuge compliment, and I am not used to think that MY pictures could hang on a big gallery. Maybe one day, but I can actually start slowly think about it. Why not?

So, I will let you know how the exhibitioin went....now it's time to put myself together. Oh mamma mia!!!

So, people just come and say hello at Galleri Bob in Bergsjön today and you will get some small little surprise!!

Ciao ciao

Cornelia

100 år CORTEGE - CHALMERS

Programmutdelare!

30 april 2009, 100 År Cortège för Chalmers.

Det var klart att vi inte kunde missa detta, annars brukar man inte gå och titta så ofta, men vädret var ju suverän och stämningen i stan också. Massor av folk, från pitte små till äldre.
Även i år så har studenterna tagit fram de hetaste nyheterna och presenterad de med fina utsmykta vagnar, lastbilar och självfixade transportmedel.
Det fanns något att skratta för alla och något i efterhand att fundera över kanske...
I alla fall var det roligt.


Att det är brist om bostadsrätter i Gbg är väl ingen nyhet! Men kanske ska man börja att bygga sådana fina söta småa kojor som man har i Japan och hyra ut de till alla stackars studenterna!


En galen student!



Och vilken skandal det var och är. 2009 största skandal skulle jag nästan tror är detta. Till och med franska TV har nu tagit upp svenska reportage om levande dunplockning på gås. Fiiiii på er som gör sådant! Jag ska akta mig framöver att inte köpa några dunsaker mer utan att jag vet varifrån de kommer och jag har garanti på det!


En charmig student med blommor!

LEO PÅ JAKT

Det är våren även för mina katter Leo och Tigris.

Förra helgen var vi ute och städade min bil hemma. Plötslig hörde jag en skata skrika som galning. Vad var detta, tänkte jag? Upp med huvud ovanpå garaget och där satt stora-lilla Leo vacker och tjockis. Sen rupade jag på honom och titta vilken blick! Ska han hoppa på mig eller ej? Ne ne, det gjorde han viss inte! Han ville bara hälsa.