helena kvartström

I have to confess that I am at least minimally biased towards immigrant artists. Somehow, I think there is some connected line of thinking between most of them, at least from what I've been able to gather, and I share that sentiment. It seems to consist of 1/3rd longing, 1/3 realization of the universailty of mundane experiance, and the rest, I suppose, is personal. Kvartström is an immigrant, born in Sweden, who has grown up in America, lived in England and presently resides in Toronto.ca. Her work is very affectionate but her photographs, although exectued with a definite sense of whimsy , are 'normal'. (And there are fewer things that excite me as much as 'normal')