Anna Blom

My work is personal: a cut of life and a continuous narrative of immediate surroundings. I strive to deconstruct the fragile details which provide the warp and weft and the baseline of our daily existence. With a diaristic methodology, I study nuances of isolated mundane moments discovering the overlooked emotions and unseen objects that occupy our meticulously assembled environment.

I am driven by the need for an understanding of, and to find comfort in, how we weave our existence together. By collecting sketches, photographs, found objects and white noise, I create an archive of micro situations that come together to form paintings. The stains on the canvas are layered interpretations of the liminal spaces we inhabit and they explore how we connect, combine, and construct ourselves within them.

I compose my practice by sitting with fundamental daily shapes–whether these are objects, spaces, or emotions–and wrestle with them and interrogate their life cycles, from conception to discarding.

These particulars, either emotional or physical, are given little appreciation but, in my opinion, have a powerful and undeniable influence on participants. By lending these influences credence, they can provide us with resilience and courage in the nonsensical unpredictability of our ordinary lives.