Jorunn Monrad paints "the impressions of patterns that she envisaged while looking at the structure of wood or clouds as a child".

In her works she recreates a texture of small primordial animals in movement. Flexible beings that play in the fluidity of appearing and disappearing, between figure and background.
Visions comparable to those that our eyes produce in the dark, simply by pressing the eyeball. Visual perceptions called phosphenes, similar to stardust or irregular geometric shapes. The artist has commenced this research spontaneously, and it has grown over the years, corroborated by studies on visual perception and the analogies encountered between her work and the hallucinations described by Thomas De Quincey and by Walter Benjamin.
The titles of her paintings are sentences concealed beneath the image (quotations from Benjamin). The color used harmonizes with the sentence.

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