Artist Statement

My work is a metaphorical laboratory which creates a life of infinite possibilities for the shadowed denizens of the subconscious and the imagined unknown.

Negative, violent and maverick forces inhabit a twilight zone where chaos prevails, opposites attract, evil is good and our one-eyed gods walk inexorably towards their own ruin.

These drawings are like surrogate lovers, children, demons and absurd confessors.

They stand proudly in a pool of metaphysical slush that's on tap from twilight places where imagination and the subconscious fight for front row seats.

They laugh and leer because humour makes all our madness endurable and somehow transfigures the darkness inside of us so as to render it palatable.

I hope you enjoy my motley assortment of mavericks, losers, outsiders and freaks.

Rolf Knudsen 2005