Crossing Over
By Sondre Haaland Bjelland
How can a space have both real and fictional properties at the same time? An exploration on this theme is exemplified through a visual story of a character who travels through passages between what we experience as our everyday, and a space that exists behind/besides/beyond. The material is presented as a visual journal of what the character has experienced on these excursions. A kind of scenographic cross-section of the subjective documentation made by the main character. The aim is to question this boundary, and to illustrate the fine, oscillating line between the vernacular and the fantastical.
Sondre Haaland Bjelland (NO)
Sondre Haaland Bjelland is an illustrator with experience in making comics, editorial illustration and storyboarding for short film. He derives his main influences from such artists as Jean Giraud, Kjell Aukrust, Hayao Miyazaki and Palle Nielsen. Beyond really liking drawing in and of itself, he wants to drive his work in a direction that invites people to have conversations about how and why we draw. His master project is meant to convey part of this, where drawing is the main medium of visualising the dynamic between the everlasting pattern recognition of our brains and the endless stream of stimuli from our external surroundings.