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PETER´S
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 The artist was chosen as the cover art for the first On the Labyrinth album "The garden of mysteries". I actually made this one in three different versions of which the very first one was a zinc etching and the other two related variations in water color  The way to Ratby is one of
several illustrations meant for an unpublished book of the same name
which I wrote in my teens. You could say that
from the beginning to the end it's a homage to Lewis
Carrol´s 'Alice in wonderland' and 'Through the looking glass',
picking up on all the whimsical nonsense and dreamlike visionary of
these
masterpieces of his
 In her father's garden was
another book I tried to write after I had completed 'The way to Ratby',
but without managing to pull it through. It did however give way to a
couple of songs
and several illustrations
 The opium witch is a painting
I made with a girlfriend in mind, who was dangerously close to falling
into
drug abuse
 Detail from
the same painting
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 Baby in a room is me when I was a wee lad of eight months or so, here
filling up this confined bit of space and looking as if I´m
getting ready to flee my cage! For this painting I made
use of two very old photos, one of me the baby and one of the pendulum
clock in the background, which once stood in the living room of my late
grand parents villa
 Visitor from the woods was intended as a fusion of two worlds where I melded together mythological creatures of the mysterious North along with urban every day life   Billy Bulb was a sad little
char- acter of a children's book I was working on in the early 70s, a
project
which eventually flaunted but which I am hoping to one day pick up on
and complete. The story
was based
around a little light bulb boy who was unable to glow and who
subsequently
ventured out
into the world asking the sun, the moon, the stars, even the aurora
borealis and the fire flies how they did it, hence hoping for their
guidance and a grand solution to his problem  This is an early version of
Towers
  Are you connected?  The Rat was a character of an unpublished novel I wrote in the 1960s, one which I called 'The way to Ratby'  Sunset in the outback was one of many paintings I made in the mid 60s at primary school in Western Australia, which in this case was in the rural town of Katanning  City by night is something I put together quite spontaneo- usly on a piece of cardboard using various kinds of material and utensils |
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