Xenoglossy is a term for an occult languagephenomonen where people suddenly in a trancelike state speak a language they have never learn or spoken before.
Julie Nord's paitings varies between black and white pen and ink painting to colorfilled watercolor paintings. Her still is uniqe and brings us into a magical world with cute anima, dolllike girls and flowers to persuade us to move closer only to see the dark shadows lurking in the form of flesheating plants, hybridbeings and skull.
Eventough Julie Nord paintings shows a magical world they also portray the real world and how darkness can be pressent behind the happiest of settings.
This painting shows none of the hybrid beings I talked about but it shows the duality which always exist in her art anyway. The painting looks piecefull when you first see it, but at a closer look you see the grief in the oen of the dogs eyes and the fearfull expression in the other dogs eyes. A fear of the big white void that seems to grow futher and futher into the picture. The girls eyes looks empty and distant aswell and the pot that is tipping over illustrades the surface is about to burst.
Nord often uses this void in her pictures and stands in great contrast to the overwhelming amount of details. The void expresses and emptyness or something that is left unsaid and like in most of ther other pictures are nightcreatures rushing out of the shadows and the flowers the girl is holding are dead and full of skull. The cute animals which drew us closer got the same sad and fearfull expression as the dogs in the painting above.
The duality is also shown in her colorwork, with a little child walking with her carriage on a beautiful summer day, but the doll in the pram tell us another story than what appears to be, a story full of shadow and darkness.
The painting of hybridbeings are another one of Julie Nord's characteristic. The beautiful colors and the absurd being is the constrast in this one, like the sad look in the girls face are a contrast to the light in the ceiling.
This picuture ones again in a real literal sense shows the duality of life. The most life like girl is in the middle of her dark side and her lighter side. To me it illustrutate the two side of one person and the one in the middle shows that noone can see inside us or feel what we are feeling.
A lot of her pictures are a testimony of how a void inside us can scare us and be all consuming, but it is also a way of showing how easy it can be to hide away the darkness and shadows inside within ourself, but nomattter how good we get at hidding them, they'll always be there.
This last painting is one of my favourite ones and I'll leave it and the quote with you without commenting on it. Hope you'll enjoy her art as much as I do :D
"Just before I fell asleep, I dreamt I woke up - lying beside My Self."
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