Anna Blom’s work is a diaristic response to her own environment. It is a deconstruction of the fragile details, the physical and psychological components of the everyday landscape resulting in observational portraitures.
Blom’s research is an archival process of working out how we connect, combine and construct ourselves, where she collects objects, matter, white noise and writing which ultimately is poured into paintings. The canvases are layered out in the open, exposed to wind and light, using raw pigment and permitting situational debris to flow in. These textured, gritty, matt surfaces explore each other, the colours indicate seasonality, and the debris enhance awareness of time and place of production.
These ephemeral junctures interest Blom because they behave like a painted philosophy, an unruly, particle-filled cosmoses or unseen atoms which become energy fields with anchored points. It is not a reality, but a physicality of emotions, that she creates: A ‘coming-to-understanding’ how we co-exist in a transient world of longing and unusual systems of existing.
