Order reigns in the home of Anna Maria Espinosa, to calm the inner chaos. ed. art had the honour of adding and hanging artworks in the singer's home.
Who lives here?
– Me and my son Astor. I am a singer and sing in my two bands Little Lies and Club Killers. Soon I will be a guest on Bo Kaspers Orchestra's Christmas tour. But right now I am also studying to be a social worker. Astor, who is 20 years old, works at an animal hospital but has his sights set on the law program this spring.
How do you like it at home?
Unfortunately, I am pedantic. It is probably to calm the inner chaos, all the thoughts that fly around all the time. I also like when things feel like "me", are personal and harmonious. My home needs to feel warm and like there is room for more things that I could like and love. Things that I think are nice and that come to me when I have found it.
What do you have on your walls and what are your criteria when you get something new?
What I have on my walls must interact with both my brain and my heart. If it is something new, it must also interact with what is already there. Right now I have a mix of art that friends have created and stuff I bought at ed. art.
Why is it so damn hard to hang the art by yourself?
– I don't trust my ability to nail and drill correctly! I'm incredibly afraid of a thousand unnecessary holes. And it's so nice to get help from someone who knows it much better than me, when it turns out in a way I couldn't even imagine.
Artworks fromleft: Rubin by Charlotte Gyllenhammar, private work by Björn Kjelltoft, Untitled I by Olle Borg and private artwork
Here's how the assignment went:
Anna Maria Espinosa selected a couple of artworks she liked in advance. We took these with us on a first visit. We combined them, moved them around, tested different combinations and variations, and also took help from ed-art.se to find additional artworks that might work. We photographed all the suggestions and later supplemented them with photo sketches of the artworks that we didn't have with us but decided we wanted to test on site.
In the end, we ended up with three new artworks and how they would hang together with the old ones. These were framed, and we also took the artwork that hangs in the bookshelf with us to have its existing birch frame light-stained to better suit both the artwork and the room. During a short return visit, we hung all the artworks.
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Private artwork by Sara-Vide Eriksson, Thin places - Causeway coast by Christina Henrysson
Private artwork in bookshelf