Aase-Hilde Brekke. Norway

Art: I believe that every moment has a special quality and my mission as an artist is to wait until the moment reveals itself to me. That`s why I take only "one shot" of a motif with my camera. In this prescious glimps there is created a vision, a message. It is as if art creates me, not the other way around. I am just a witness. Art represents the possibilities and glimpses of emptiness that are the gateways to heaven and sometimes hell. The moments, the gaps in between "something" and "something else" where reality shows its inner beauty and mystic content, are the moments where everything is vibrating and at the same time is standing still. Prescious, silent, extraordinary streams of consciousness and glimpses of truth. In this way I try to communicate with the world around me, and I feel very lucky being an artist: I only give an offer back to life that supports me. With all its shadows, sorrows and pain, hopes, dreams and joy, human beings have the ability to change direction since we are part of life itself. - That is why I consider art to be a life-supporting ritual.

Many of my works are transformed into different medias: I start with a found object, I make a photo of it, I transform the idea or impuls into sculptures, and installations, and then I do a performance art piece with visual and auditive elements. I consider my work as a transformation process, where I explore ideas and materials in different medias.
 

Aase-Hilde Brekke