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Birgitte

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About Me

Soft'n witty. COMPLEX and slightly cruel! LOL.I am a shy luxury loving animal, that can easily live in a wooden cottage out in the wilderness. But not toooo far from the psychadelic metropolis. My love of fast cars would help me to reach my destination.I am living and working in the Arts District in Downtown, Los Angeles. The Arts District Downtown is the most inspiring international art scene in California. It appealed to me. I relocated to LA from Copenhagen in January 2003 as the Artist in Residence at USC Film schools division of Digital Art. The way I prefer to interact amongst other social misfits as myself, is by taunting the others at dinner conversations about exsistentialism, art and love. Politics agitates me. I do not discuss politics. I leave that to the vapid morons that infect our daily lives. I tend towards the extrovert, but am in reality shy and introvert. There you go Freudian, Jungian, choose your Euro-father figure.The outer looks mirror nothing and yet everything. My chinese sign is the tiger - a mellow one. Lazy but ferocious when provoked.A large proportion of me is British, with some raunchy old Italian blood, a slash of Polish jew, Danish protestancism. I am now temporarely into hinduism. Born into a violent Teutonic tribe from Southern Denmark, but raised to the Scandinavian tone of melancholy and supressed restlessness.Profession: Fine artist, theatre set design, literature. Therefore in the oldfashioned end: Humaniora!!!..

My Interests

Beauty in all forms!!! ART. HUMOUR. Maximizing joy and authentic self with family, friends, and someone I come into contact with... Visual art - esp. paintings/mixed media. Theatre, writing, poetry, literature, installation + performance art, architecture, high fashion, digital art, films, design, music. Production/set design: Theatre mainly. (Religious) symbols, mythology. Nature.Philosophy, Psychology. Ethics, Health, Desire/Intention, LOYALTY. Communication, Choice, Self. Zen, hinduism. Abstract thinking, systematic thinking, emptiness, intensity. Flowers, patterns, water, symbols. Horsebackriding and especially HORSES:-), dancing. SATSANG ( Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta). Deep contact, honesty, peace, relationships, humanity, wisdom, cooking, healthy delicate food. Artists whoose works I like alot: El Greco, Durer, Basquiat, Kienholz, Pieter Brueghel, Hieronimus Bosch, Odd Nerdrum, Herman Nitsch, Matthew Barney.....

I'd like to meet:

God on a date, David Lynch at a fish 'n chips shop, David Bowie at a scuba diving course, Antonin Artaud at the pub, Albert Camus in a kindergarten, Jack Kerouac in a girls shower, Leonard Cohen anywhere, Milan Kundera on a safari, Leonardo da Vinci at a steam bath, Schoppenhauer at a station, Viggo Mortensen also anywhere, My great grandfather alive, Vivienne Westwood at the ballet, Nisagadatta in Los Angeles, Yul Brenner in a beauty clinique, Lauren Bacall also anywhere, Myself...

Music:

Albinoni, Grieg, Bach, Wagner, Bowie, Budda Bar, Prince, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, Laurie Anderson, John Lennon, Methods of Mayheim, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Underworld, The Orb, Tindersticks, Nick Cave, Cabaret Voltaire, The The, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, New Order, Pink Floyd, Jimmy Tenor, Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O"Connor, Sex Pistols, U2, The Cult, St. Germain, Chet Baker, Ry Cooder, and and and...... Minimal German techno, big bleak baroque, classical, opera, ambient & downtempo & tribal ELECTRONICA.

Movies:

Hero, the good the bad and the ugly, happiness, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, sex, lies & videotapes, stalker, Westworld, Der Blaue Engel, Himmel uber Berlin, Paris Texas, 2001, american beauty, snatch, kill bill, death in venice, silence of the lamb, last tango in paris, pulp fiction, matrix, se7en, dark city, even cowgirls get the blues, memento, blade runner uncut, stalker, Gladiator, The Element of Crime, Trainspotting, crash, dangerous liasons. Bunuel, Gus van Sant, Lynch, David Cronenberg, Almodovar, Lars von Trier, Derek Jarman, Greenaway, The Cohen Brothers and the master: Andrei Tarkovsky .........................................

Television:

Rarely watch TV - allthough; Absolutely Fabulous. The Persuaders, Discovery Channel

Books:

Greek tragedys, poetry, dictionarys, Antonin Artaud, Baudrillard, Baudelaire. William Blake, Herman Hesse, Carl Gustav Jung, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Jean Paul Sarte, Henry Miller, Schopenhauer, Oscar Wilde, Paul Auster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Gibson, Bhagavad Ghita and others.......

Heroes:

My husbond Cheiron

My Blog

A REVIEW

BIRGITTE AT WORK? YOU SAYIn the past few months, I have keenly observed an artist in lust with abstract expressionism, a fine artist sublime.Her day begins late, an ecclesiastic abominance, and ends l...
Posted by Birgitte on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:48:00 PST

ONE ARTISTIC STATEMENT

Birgitte's paintings communicate from a myth-generated part of our cultural heritage, revealing individual and collective patterns in the human structures of sensing the essence of being alive. Her qu...
Posted by Birgitte on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:44:00 PST