This painting has a strong ecological message.

It didn´t happen right away. Slowly, but steady the snow melted and soon vanished completely. The landscape changed. Seas retracted. He watched his fellow birds take refugee elsewhere. Only the most resilient stayed.

Being a resourceful penguin, educated and working as engineer, he just couldn´t sit around doing nothing. The philosophy of the Circle. Condensation and evaporation. The clouds are always there. Hmm... a thought and a plan. Gathering parts. Bolts and nuts. Taps, cogs and gears. Pipes following the power flow. Hard work, sweat and modulating. After a couple of months the machine was ready and working. According to plan and idea.

Here you can see showing his invention, proudly I might add. Now he´s travelling the land far and wide. Helping others with his machine and services. You can trust the penguins.

If you look closely at the machine, you will see that it all works. Power of the transmission and gears to the pump. Suction power and flow. Down to the cooling system. Yes, it all works.

If it wasn´t for a little thing called, laws of reality.

But then again, Necessity knows no laws.
Frank Björklund 2023

A young woman, the naive and the innocent, holding multicolored balloons that transcends into to blue skies. White fluffy clouds and clean air. Or wishing/demanding for clean air. A play with words. She´s walking with the traffic, the flow. With a tiger as a companion or guard. The tiger, all living, is looking toward us, (the viewer/spectator), asking a question...?

Frank on titles:
A good title should be like a ticket to a good journey.

The specific words in the title should give you clues and direction to where the painting is heading. Yes, of course, we have different backgrounds and therefore different references and experiences to words. But that only means the journey is different for all of us. The more you can read in to painting the longer ride you will get. Sometimes it never stops. Even though the image is the same…

The painting should have a literary quality. There should be a story, a thought that draws you in. Like the renaissance painters I like to use allegories or more modern icons to give hints and to lead you in. Into the inner landscape of the image.

And with a little luck, into yourself.”

What is normal? This painting reflects to the opposite of the normal, the norm. A steam punk head with no body and mechanical features. Let´s say that´s the norm. What's normal or usual in art ? A still life of course. An apple and a pear. The allegory over apple could be love, wisdom, luxury or death. A pear longevity and divine sustenance. Ironic. Hanging as effects on each side of the head. If hunger strikes, what will he/she eat?

So close but yet so far. The real sideeffect is that I got you thinking.

A three-piece painting, an triptych. The two outer sides is a busy town. Traffic in the streets. The pulse is high and the stress level also. In a world where we shuttle from place to place, and work becomes equal to living. Once in while we have to stop and just play, for our own amusement. The Pause. The recovery. The recovery of play, where we allow us to be ourselves. The middle is a antique tin toy that you wind up. And the beat goes on. Repeat...

Confetti rain into a silver bowl. They ( I never knew who "they" were) say that water and silver is the most difficult thing to paint. Because of the mirror reflexes, I guess. In the falling multicolored confetti some images appear. If you look closely some budgies are flying in and amongst the confetti. They only exist if you can see them.

And if you do, you will pass with flying colors...

The Juggler
Life is a circus. A trained pinguin is juggling transience. In art, literature and history the form of vanitas (paintings) is known. The emptiness of life and near death. Time is essential. But also, growth, a seed becomes a flowers then wither. Here is some objects, allegories over life, philosophy, love, death and rebirth.

A visual and clear painting. Light and dark. A young boy, an all-time boy, is using his bullhorn. In the prospect of inheriting a world of darkness....

He is shouting/crying out for a nicer and brighter world.

The title is of course a wordplay. With a light in the night, hurricane lamp. A savior, a rescue at the horizon. These poor penguins look lost in the dessert or, has all the ice melted and they search for a new home. Or is it rescue the search for? Environmental refugees...

Two questions on opposite sides? First of all, is there any water in the image? If there is, then the antique tin toy, the rowing man, is "out of water". But then again, he should be, because he is supposed to be above water. Then if there is not, how about the fish? Out of their comfort zone, I would suspect. Could it be that there is just man invading space, rooting out flora and fauna...?

The Butterfly effect
It´s the chaos theory. It rests on a notion that the world is deeply interconnected, such that one small occurrence can influence a much larger complex system. The effect is named after an allegory for chaos theory. It awakes the theory, that a butterfly could flaps it wing in London and, hypothetically, multiply the motion to cause a storm in Australia. Only one butterfly has a shadow.

A puzzle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. A painting that turns existential. Like Harry Potters living paintings or an actor that turns to the camera and breaking the fourth wall. A young man is out walking finding/picking up a piece of a jig saw puzzle. It´s his own feet. Does he realize that hi is only a painting? Does he reflect on his legs and shoes? Where is he heading? Where are we heading?