Welcome to my homesite where you can see artwork, photos, and read texts by others and me. Some (but far from all) of the content will change rather often…
Page 1: Welcome page (this one) KEVISELIE ; subpage 1: Art of the moment (My current artwork show)
Page 2: CV (Curriculum vitae): my activities as a professional artist & more
Page 3: Pencil drawings; subpage 2: Colour pencil/crayon drawings
Page 4: Ink drawings
Page 5: Paintings on paper(aquarelles); subpage 3: Acrylics on paper
Page 6: Oil paintings
Page 7: Graphic Art I: Metal graphic (drypoint prints & etchings)
Page 7: Graphic Art II: Lithographies
Page 8: Graphic Art III: Wood block prints; subpage 4: Sámi drums 1:1 & more
Page 9: Mixed media art
Page 10: Graphic Art IV: Maps (Sámi place names, etc.)
Page 11: Plastic (3D) art
Page 12: Carved Wood reliefs
Page 13: Design (Jewelry)
Page 14: Art Commissions
Page 19: Keviselie lágadus publishing/forlag; books
Page 20: Graphic Art V: posters. Subpage 9: Commissioned posters
Page 21: Graphic Art VI: Digital Art; Subpage 10: Digital commissions
Page 22: Graphic Art VII: Book covers. Subpage 11: Logos
Page 23: Photos: My travels. Subpage 12: Guest Photos: Active me!
Page 24: "Sins of my Youth"
Page 25: Guest book (be welcome to write in it!)
Page 26: Links
Page 27 Contact page
Page 28 Video page (my exhibition in Tartu Museum, Estonia 2011)
Subpage 13: KEVIFILMS: a preliminary list 1995-2004
The current texts are:
(page 18/
subpage 5): Rudolph Johnson:
A Sami View of Norwegian American Ethnicity
, subpage 7:
Sami flag histopry
page 15:
Keviselie: (Intro: Keviselie, the author?);
page 17:
LULEJU
a poem by Elle-Hánsa (1977-78)
(p. 15):
SJELDNE BLOMSTER
Novelle/short story (in Norwegian) 2000
(page 18) Rapport fra Oceviecim/Auschwitz 07.03.2011
Nasjonalisme og menneskerett? (1995)
(page 18, subpage 5)
Rudoplp Johnson in memorian (2007)
(page 16, subpage 5)
Vikings - worse than their reputation/VIKINGENE – verre enn sitt rykte (2009)
This site will focus on me as an artist. Let me tell you briefly a
little about myself. I was born July 1st 1945 as one of a pair of twins at the
hospital in Narvik, Sápmi, Norway, or rather the ruins of a town that had been
targeted for bombs during WW II. Originally I come from a small coastal Sámi
village Searvegieddi in Deanudat, and the dreaded TB disease also infected me.
My grandfather and all my 3 uncles died of it prematurely. Nils Anders died first
2o years old, then Samuel died the same year I was born at the age of 25, then
Amund who «passed on» the disease (without being aware of it, of course) to me,
and I was hospitalized for 9 years, 7
½
in Romsa/Tromsø.
(You can see photos of them here on my website under Kevi Photo Memories, subpage: Family photos)
I have a very
different, and for this area, rather unusual, though not unique) childhood. When I got out of
hospital Sept 21 1956, I did my best to try to forget those years! They may
also explain why I became an artist…
Being an artist is far from an ideal, it is, like the ancient noaiddit
of my people, a heavy task, and a lonesome one, full of responsibilities but
also spiritually very rewarding. I know there have been shamans in my line, and
I use to compare being an artist with being a noaidi. The similarities
outnumber the differences.
Yet this has been and is being used against me, as something to loathe,
to disregard as unfit in present contemporary society, and what not.
To put it short: It is in the art sphere that attitudes and
Machiavellian power games have survived and thrive, after being banned from the
realm of democratic societies. Racism, favourising and discrimination are in full
power in the art world, I am afraid, only with different titles and under the
umbrella of so called artistic «freedom». (27.04.2010)