Ellen Bødtker / Jan Erik Vold

Ellen Bødtker / Jan Erik Vold: Sommeren Der Ute

by Jakob Baekgaard
December 19, 2015

A poem called “Hokusai, The Old Master," by the Norwegian poet Jan Erik Vold, tells about the understanding of art and life as a process that deepens with old age: “so when I turn 100 / I shall produce / praiseworthy things." Even though Vold has not turned 100 yet, he has reached what you might call the age of maturity and true to the wisdom of the poem, he has created one of his greatest works ...