Is Karl Persson’s reality “Perssonality”?
“Kermit and His Screwdriver” and “Shiny Chicken” are two of Karl Persson’s least appalling paintings. If you’re in a Halloweenish mood, there’s far worse at his website, his new Facebook page and at the surrealism-lives fantasy-art website BeInArt, where Persson has a gallery.
But don’t visit while you’re eating.
As if left speechless, none of these online sources has much to say about him other than this rather uninspired soundbite from Karl himself:
“My intellect doesn’t come into play when I am channelling something subconsciously. There is plenty of time for interpretation after a painting is finished.
“Whenever I look at my finished paintings it is like analysing a dream — deciphering my personal symbolic language. Although there is obviously some calculated thought behind things like compositional aesthetics, I still try to keep these decisions relatively instinctive.
“I find this approach far more fulfilling than when I have injected some preconceived concept into an image, which has often consequently become either stale or too obvious.”
