Meet Blackjack

Meet Blackjack. He’s not the smartest in his class, nor the best looking. Although, he can do an amazing impression of The Thinker with profound pondering. Enter the "Office Ten.” Office Tens make our work lives more interesting— they’re desires we fabricate, romanticize. I ask myself: What would this look like in the animal kingdom, specifically Highland cattle in northern Norway?

Balancing the 'real with the ideal' is one theme in my work which usually starts with a question. It might take me a year to create a photograph that hits this theme. I do a little happy dance on the way to the framers when I find it. Yes, this all goes through my head when selecting work for exhibition and sale.

Blackjack, archival pigment print mounted on dibond, 39 x 52 inches, Edition of 3 + AP