I grew up in the 80's in Norway; a time where the cold war hang as a constant black cloud in a everybodys mind in a little country that had been occupied during ww2 and the post traumas that follows.

I dont think its obvious that children in my time and my surroundings should feel this things body-wise...after all; the US and USSRs power struggle was a bit abstract and far away and the invasion  distant in time. Still...this was a huge what you only can imagen have no earthly limit  to the size they grow into and this became sometimes consuming; the absolute feeling of powerlessness...the surreality of nations...the despair of destruction... the un-nature of it...and above all; fear of death...your own and those you love.

I dont know how this has affected me...im not afraid anymore but i sure has a despise for civilasation in many ways...and the constructions called borders i will never completely understand .

For what is worth i feel i need to work with this...for my own sake...and though i thought i might be through with this with "AIRBORDERS" but to be honest; there are too many battles and borders inside.Yet.

I think i want to share the orgin of the idea for the aircraft work...now given the title "AIRBORDERS".

If any of you have going throough my gallery of "selected works" its obvious that the work fly/ww2 is essential for my new production. Still there is another thing ive made which are just as important for this outcome; "missery is a butterfly" ...just a photograph...made in another context and with a totally different inspiration. But the brain works in mysterious ways and in this these two works has become one in a paler hybrid ...im very exited now that its closing up to do the final montage...