beaded

huichol handicraft, Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno, Jewellery brand Brokenfab, mexican culture

Huichol Wood Shaman Masks

pictures from http://www.mexicanartdealing.com, http://www.enidiomas.com, http://www.russellstutely.com

mexico

Some pictures from when we went to Mexico during christmas





All pictures taken by Kari Palmqvist

frode&marcus

I am working on a new project for the amazing photography duo Frode&Marcus I am making a huge costume for their next project (which is secret of course) they are going to a very dark and cold corner of the world. We have worked together before and I am really looking forward to this project.

Red indian Shamans

i have a huge fascination for native american culture
More pictures of shamans coming soon

Anagram

The nicest anagram I have ever seen!

NYC fonts

Dhaka

Dhaka

Dhaka

missing in Barcelona

friday

monday

My parents

Age enchanced wedding picture

time travelling

I have been travelling to two very different large cities in the past month, they are approximately the same size when it comes to population, but apart from that they could not be more different.
One city is Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, the other is New York City which does not need an introduction. In both places I stayed in very luxurious hotels with outstanding views over the city. My room in Dhaka was overlooking the city centre and there were eagles flying below me in the morning, in NYC my room at the Standard was facing the Hudson river and New Jersey

From my current location, I am living somewhere in between these cities, I lost five hours due to the time difference when I flew to Bangladesh.
Where does this time go? how can it vanish from my life? When going the other direction, I then gained six hours, so I had six more hours to spend in the city, six more hours of my life, a quarter of the days' total 24 hours.
Does this mean if you fly somewhere with one hour time difference, and the flight is an hour, time stands still?

Double vision

the scent of art

To deliberately arrange elements in a way that appeals to our senses or emotions, to excite, fascinate, disgust and awaken plenty of thoughts in the onlookers mind. That is a simple way to explain what art actually is.

Most of the time it appeals to our sight and in some cases also our hearing and sense of touch.
I read an article recently about Kittiwat Unarrom, a fine art student in Thailand who is the son of a baker. He has made these amazing unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts sculpted entirely from bread. They come packaged like food and are up for sale in his showroom, all of the work on display is totally edible.

What I have been thinking about for a little while now is the scent of art.
When smelling an art piece it smells of the materials used when making it; paint, wax, plaster, clay etc.
I have not yet come across any piece of art that has a deliberate scent. Shouldn't art appeal to all our senses?
Smell is a travelling scent, it can take us on way back in time, all of a sudden you start to remember something that you thought was long lost, all due to a certain scent.
As with other senses, can two people ever smell the same. And feel the same about that smell?

imagine if you could actually visualise a scent.

an indeterminate future

space

footprints

These traces are impressions or images left behind by a person walking.
They may either be indentations in the ground or something placed onto the surface that was stuck to the bottom of the foot.
How come footprints are only visible on soft surfaces, such as snow, sand, mud and very brief in water and faint when walking on leaves?
Traces on these surfaces are not forever, not lasting we are not leaving them for anyone else to see.

Apparently the Foot tends to be approximately 15% of the person's height. I am 164cm tall, which means my foot should be 24.6 cm, my foot is 23.9 cm.

Perdu

French: perdu

English:
lost
missing
wasted
stray
waste
gone
lonely

German:
verloren
Italian:
perduto
Spanish:
perdido
Dutch:
verloren
Portuguese:
perdido
Swedish:
förlorad

Wisdom

I got this book called Wisdom the other day, it is inspired by the idea that wisdom is the greatest gift one generation can give to another.
Photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman interviewed, photographed and filmed 50 of the world’s great writers, actors, artists, designers, politicians, musicians and religious and business leaders of our time. He posed seven questions to each of his subjects—all over 65 years of age—and their candid responses offer uniquely inspirational and often surprising insights. The one I got is called love where they express their thoughts of love, marriage and having children

Thoughts from Nelson Mandela, Frank Gehry, Judi Dench, The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Clint Eastwood, Ted Kennedy, Robert Redford, Vaclav Havel, Terence Conran, Buzz Aldrin, Lou Reed, Willie Nelson, Madeline Albright, Jane Goodall, Burt Bacharach, Andrew Wyeth, Vanessa Redgrave, Nadine Gordimer and many more reveal lifetimes of adversity and triumph, and present intimate insights into very public lives.

age enhancement

I miss a lot of people, sometimes I am wondering if I should report them as gone missing
One thing that caught my attention when looking for people gone missing, were the age-enhanced pictures.
When a person went missing years ago, someone works out (based on their facial features and structures) what that person will look like now.
We all age differently depending on varoius things that happens to us in our lives.
Ageing is a multidimensional process of physical, psychological, and social change. Reaction time, for example, may slow with age, while knowledge of world events and wisdom may expand.
I am wondering what these pictures would look like, had they known what the person has been through..
Would you recognize yourself if you saw an age enhanced picture of you?

Lemon Emigrant

I received a parcel in the post this morning, three butterflies in a black painted wooden frame.
A friend sent me this, I have not seen her since I moved, it is such a beautiful gift.

What struck me instantly was that the first butterly in the frame is called the Lemon Emigrant.

The Lemon Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona) is a medium sized pierid butterfly found in Asia and parts of Australia. The species gets its name from its habit of migration.

It is quite a fascinating gift. because my friend who sent me this consumes plenty of lemons , she is the only person I know who actually likes eating them just as they are.

Migration refers to directed, regular, or systematic movement of a group of objects, organisms, or people
Human migration is movement (physical or psychological) by humans from one district to another, sometimes over long distances. The movement of populations in modern times has continued under the form of both voluntary migration within one's region, country, or beyond.
This is what I did recently.

I think this butterfly represents our friendship.