Residency artists and researchers Painting, drawing, printmaking Elida Runeson MFA During the latest time I have felt that my work is a bit split up I have had the feeling that I want to do something new. And that I can not do what I have been doing before. What I have been doing before is paintings that are narrative and mostly figurative. They are showing an inner landscape and they are about existential thoughts. Lately I have been painting some pictures with forms that are existing in a space. The new pictures are not narrative. They have a kind of figurative entrance but the outcome is more abstract. With this work I felt a releasing feeling. Today I don’t know what way my work will take. I know that I can do both. And I know that this is a part of the process to wander around in different ways of painting to tune in to what place I am at painterly and to keep the process in motion. Though, I feel a big need to build up the concentration and the frequency in working to get further and deeper in it. I think that the artistic process is a part of something wider, a developing process in my life in general. In that way I am really a part of my work and it explains a lot about why one has to be at a good place both physical and spiritual when working. I think that were I now am, is in a period of shifting old into new. I can not know were my work will go, yet.