My friend and collegue Jon(zero) Martin is currently looking for a place to buy, and one day I found an evil/ideal property for him. A great modern mansion deep inside the forrests of “Åmot”, a few kilometers outside of the city of Skien.

So when it was viewing most of the onezero went along to be supportive of Jon, and I took some photos. We have no idea what happend in that house, but our bet is that it was a dark disturbing incident there some time ago, and that the place has stood empty for years. The broker said that the house was empty due to the previous owner had moved into a home, but that seems unlikely. Most of the forrest surrounding the house was also burnt down, and inside the house we found several clear bloodsplatters on the walls.

Get ready for some darkness.

The last couple of years it`s been alot of comotion regarding the Norwegian artist “Pushwagner” in the media. From what I`d gathered he was an artist in the 70s, and got addicted to drugs. Then he sold/signed his complete collection of works; paintings, sketches, lithographys, prints, sketchbooks to a slick lawyer/agent-type. The agent has no doubt just waited for Pushwagner to OD – so he could sell the works for top dollar.

But somehow Pushwagner managed to stop taking drugs long enough to realize that he had been “tricked”/outmanouvered and actually managed to get his life somewhat together again.. in an age that most people retire, he retired from being a junkie – after probably 30 years of being an addict.

And right now he`s in the process of getting the rights to his heritage back, in the courtroom. It`s expected that he`ll win the case pretty soon (according to a documentary I just saw on NRK1 (norwegian TV)).

So okay, perhaps I did know a thing or two about this man before… but what I learned just now is that his work is incredible and right up my alley. Especially a series of 7 paintings that were called “apokalypsen” looks just amazing. Huge works, insane detail work (probably not possible to do that kind of details without being intoxicated of some sort). Below is some pictures I found on the net just now, and the darkest ones is from “apokalypsen” I believe.

A lot of the imagery is also available in the book “soft city”, that I`m ordering right now. RIGHT now.

13. September.

It`s been a little while since the last update, and the reason is that I somehow lost my camera in the mess I still like to call my home. Yesterday I found it again, and here`s some pictures I took about 2 weeks ago.

After this I spent about a week putting litex on the walls and getting membran all over the walls. Unfortunatly I don`t have any pictures of that bloody mess.

11. September

since last we`ve gotten a new concrete floor, new sheetrock ceiling, and some beams up that hopefully will be actual walls at some point.

After the floor was laid down my father informed me that it will take 6 weeks until it`s dry. that`s 6 additional weeks without bathroom, kitchen or… well.. a home.

My personal hygiene has degenerated to the level that I don`t care when I`m dirty anymore. Showering a couple of times a week seems to be enough right now. Atleast for me, not sure if my girlfriend would agree – if she was here.

30. August.

Now the roof is gone too, and all the good old isolation/dust/concrete that was hiding there. Me and my father was itching for about a week while doing that job – never again.

This weekend my girlfriend Henriette/Henna is visiting from Oslo to help me out, I guess we could have done a lot more if we did`nt go to that party on friday – but then again we would`nt had that much fun.

Tearing up the concrete floor with a crowbar, a jackhammer and some finely tuned straightedge musclepower.

PS. This is NOT as easy as it may look.

This is from 18. august, the last wall standing meets my axe. Herrrreesss Johnnyyy!

This is from 15. August – destruction is imminent. Breaking down the walls, is`nt that what I`ve been doing all my life?

This is how my bathroom/kitchen/house looked 13. August – 3 weeks ago.