Showing posts with label Atmosphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atmosphere. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2020










A while ago, we had a. photoshoot at a reconstructed longhouse from the viking age, located on Sjælland, Danmark.
All tattoos you see are handmade and have a spiritual connection to the bearer.
The pictures are taken by a good friend of mine, publishing among others as @thursarn on Instagram


Friday, May 27, 2016

Faroe Islands: The other side

Before the european and scandinavian tribes embraced Christianity, they lived in a world filled with spirits, giants, elves and uncountable other mystical creatures.
They experienced these beings as real and graspable as we today experience electricity, the internet and the phenomenon, that the earth cicles around the sun and not the other way around.
Just imagine, someone tries to convince you, that electricity doesn´t exist, because one can´t see it...
Our forefathers had no Hippie- everyone- loves- everyone- peace- and- harmony approach to the world.
Nature and its spirits could be hostile and dangerous, spiritual warfare was a common concept.
Christianity- apart from ending the bloodfeuds also provided a powerful tool to ban and bound the fear triggering beings, that lived in the shadows and the twilight...




Sometimes you open a door and there he still is, the master of the runes, first of all Seidhmen...


 ...when you set your foot in the paths, walked by men since a thousand years in twilight...


...suddently the rocks show their true face..


...and just because no one watches anymore, doesn´t mean, the Huldrefolk stopped dancing.


Why is it still important for so many people to nail animal skulls on their houses?
Do they more or less subconciously ask for protection or the death of their enemies as their forefathers did for thousands of years or is it just decoration?


And the witch, frozen to stone when kissed by the first beams of the raising sun, stands forever in the ice cold sea.
No one wants to forget her story...

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The gods...



Hangatyr...




She, who knows it all, but never says...

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Hats and rituals










What is the thing with the funny straps in front of the eyes?
In Siberian and Tuvan shamanism today these straps still play an important role.
It is less about hiding the face.
Apart from taking away half of the external sight, wich is for special practices and paths important, it also shelters the eyes from entering evil spirits.
In the european iron age we find clear evidence of the concepts of spirits that invade throgh all body openings.
Also it is mentioned in one of the sagas, that the Vølva asks her helper to bring the dark hood or hat with the straps, in order to perform Seidhr.
Sometimes you can see me working at public sessions with a black hat and straps covering my eyes, serving apart for ceremonial purposes also simply as blinders for the flashlight of the cameras :)

Foteviken


As so many years in the past, Kunsten på Kroppen will be also present and working at the annual festival after midsummer (1-3 July) in the Viking reservation Foteviken, Sweden

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The ancient lake



..more norse ritual ambient atmosphere by Christina: http://body-art-photography.de/
Tattoos by me, awesomeness by Norway

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Norwegian River....





This is what we do and as we like it :)
If you happen to be beautiful enough and received enough ink from Kunsten paa Kroppen, we might drag you to some icecold river in Norway, make you undress and chase you in it, just for the beauty of it, while Christina will take pictures of your misery :)



Saturday, November 29, 2014

Machine Head Vega Copenhagen 29. November 2014

When it rains beer
Dancing is all about elbows first
Fun starts with black marks
It is fists and ecstasy in the air
You know you arrived once more in the boiling, swirling center of life again
And some things just never wear off

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Dreamers don´t rule




...and when the last scab fell off the lantern, the light burned the eyes of the snakes. The hermit stamped on the head of the beasts, drank their blood and sprayed it to the sky until it started to rain the coins.
Strong the hermit became  then and watched the tower crushing.
He picked up the Mithra of the Hierophant, fusioned under the eyes of the devil and walked up to the eternal castle, where he ruled and grew content until his light melted away the worlds.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Monday, March 31, 2014

Einherjer Balladen om Bifrost

Some songs hit that special nerve of traditional scandinavian sense of life, one of my top favourites, enjoy :)
The whole album is amazing!

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Springbreak in southern scandinavia

It s kind of macabre to celebrate springbreak with the picture of a grave monument...welcome to my life :)
The site is located at the Öresund coastline on the danish side. The coast is full of these monuments, that oversee the sea, also on the swedish side. Because the sea level these days is a lot lower than in the time the stones were set (stone/bronze age) the places are now a bit further inland as originally.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Eisenbuch

Cathedral Trondheim (NO)

Sledge Oseberg grave (NO)

Grave mound, Sealand (DK)


Eisenbuch

Da ist keine Welt über dir
Da ist keine Welt unter dir
Ist keine Welt vor dir
Ist keine Welt hinter dir
Keine Welt neben dir

In der der Hammer den Krug nicht zerschlägt
In der Eis das  fauchende Feuer füttert
In der der Baum nicht danach trachtet
Seinen Nachbarn
Zu überwachsen, zu überwuchern, zu überwinden

Wenn die Stunde Schmerz geschlagen hat
Heisst es du oder ich
Leben ist atmen, kämpfen und leiden
Tapfer jeden Tag
Erst der gefürchtete Letzte leiht Frieden

Keine Welt
Die nicht vom Willen zum Wachsen, zum Leben, zur Macht beherrscht wird
Denn auch du
Trägst diesen Kern in dir
Selbst wenn deine Sonne Demut heisst
Und dein Feind daselbst doch du nur bist

Diesen Kern
Aus Todesangst und Lebenswillen
Der dann doch nur Liebe ist
Und in sich selbst zerschmilzt

Dein Wille waltet die Welt
Als ganzes Gesetz
Deiner Trübsal Talestiefe
Misst deiner hellen Freude Bergfeste Höhe einst

Der Neidkönigin Narben
Gestürzter Drudenfuss geschnitzt so tief
Kains Zeichen ziert die Kalte
Schossverwundet schon so lange

Bis zum Blute stach ich den Bären einst
Mit dem stärksten aller Stäbe
Mondengleich leuchtet s aus dem Munde mir
Mottenmaul mein Name ist Gier

Wasser wallt weihend
Rinnt reinigend herein und heraus
Wäscht hinfort Wundgeister
Grämt Wahngeister

Der weise Wanderer
Bricht nur Zelte ab im Weiterziehen
Bricht keine Brücken
Denn man weiss nicht wann man ihrer wieder bedarf

Übel jene, die Übles reden
Verflucht all jene, die verfluchen
Der Narr weiss nur, was nicht er will
Und bekommt es so doch bald

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Transylvania

 Datura



 Lapusna (RO)







Carpathian forest

Where the trees are endless
Forest titans fall to rest
A bed is made for the queen

Mushrooms gather in circles

Where bears walk
Dereliction houses dark spirits
A comet falls deep into darkness

Stones rise in circles

Where drums roar
Water wispers vibrating
People dance under the moon

In circles

Bone to Rune
Skull to Dust
Ice melts the thoughts of the gods

Root promises blossom




Sunday, September 22, 2013

Black shores...

                                    Close to Jökulsárlón (IS)


 Thingvellir (IS)



Myrdalssandur (IS)



Saturday, August 10, 2013

Defeat...

That terrible moment, when you realize that you gave your very best, but it just wasn´t good enough...
Wolin (PL)

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Fjordland magick 3


It is not who you think it is... 
Fjordland set by Christina 

Fjordland magic 2


Sometimes I have no words for what I see, it´s so beautiful, that it hurts to look at it...
http://h2fotografie.blogspot.dk/