The end of depression 1-3

• Photographer
  Katarina Fagerström Levring, Sweden
• Studio
  Katarina Fagerström Levring
• Website
  http://www.katarinafagerstromlevring.com

I live with a diagnosis Bipolar 1 illness. Cirka 2/3 of that diagnose I live in
a different states of depressed feelings. The other part is about mania
and psychoyic outbursts, like having an inner vulcano you could say.
Trying to describe all the feelings in words are not really possible. I find
myself getting lost already in this short text therefore an image is really
worth more then 1000 words.

• Biography
  Born 1965 in Uddevalla, a small town on the west-coast of Sweden. I am a self-taught fine art photographer and mixed-media artist. Art, and later photography, has been an interest since my early childhood. For many years water media were my main focus until digital photography and the Lensbaby Composer entered my world. Today experimental, abstract, and close up photography of flowers is my passion. My art has an internal focus, which means that I draw most of my inspiration from my own heart and mind. In my recent work I use the Iris flower as my subject, because it has a deep emotional meaning in expressing hope to me. I use the flower as an imaginative living source of shapes and colors through which I create my art. I sense a connection to the values expressed in Pictorialism, because Beauty is always the core feature of my creative work with the camera. Abstracting the subject is an exciting way to create emotional and original works of art. To quote Georgia O����¯�¿�½??����¯�¿�½?����¯�¿�½������´Keeffe, "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." I use different types of techniques from Photo Impressionism to achieve this goal. My tools of choice are the Canon 50D or more recently the 7D, with the Lensbaby Composer and macro lenses. I work in my studio the major part of time . My work is mostly intuitive and I allow myself to , to qoute watercolorist, Nita Leland "Explore, Experiment and Expand" with light and movement to create exciting and beautiful floral abstractions.