The Emergency Clinic in Trondheim, Department of Geriatrics

The Emergency Clinic in Trondheim, Department of Geriatrics

Two series of paintings / Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag / 2018

I produce seven paintings for various patient rooms and three paintings for common areas All the images are inspired by an old botanical atlas and photographs from my personal photo album.

Based on the botanical work, supplemented with my own photographs from my garden, I have worked with vibrant, stylized, and staged portraits of flowers – inspired by the classical tradition of still-life painting in art history. The paintings will be installed in the patient rooms and will give each room a unique identity. For the corridors, I focused on various forms of caregiving situations, such as child/elderly, patient/caregiver, child/animal. All images are taken in Northern Norway from my personal photo archive. The little girl portrayed is me, and the elderly woman is my Sami great-grandmother.

Photo: Ingun Myrstad