"Ladan"
tusch på papper
"The barn"
Ink och paper
Svävande brädor
Något från ett litet ritblock som jag brukar sitta och klottra i då och då. Jag har blivit så fascinerad av att teckna brädor och träbitar på sista tiden
Hothouse Magazine
The web magazine Hothouse writes about me and publish three of my drawings on their website. Read it all here!
Source:
http://www.hothousemagazine.org/three-illustrations-by-leif-engstrom/
Thingshuset website illustrations
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| Cover image, ink, 2013 |
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| Art, ink, 2013 |
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| Music, ink, 2013 |
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| Litterature, ink, 2013 |
thingshuset.se
For Alto
"For alto" digital collage of bits of ink, watercolor, printed material, etc
Illustration for the section Tonart in the latest issue of Orkesterjournalen. It's my interpretation of Anthony Braxtons classic 1970 album "For Alto".
"For Alto" illustration in Orkesterjournalen
a spread from the latest issue of Orkesterjournalen, with my illustration on Anthony Braxtons groundbreaking free jazz album "For Alto" . A single image with only the illustration will come soon!
Poster for Gerlesborgsskolans elevutställning 2014
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Read more on the event here:https://www.facebook.com/events/744168998938368/?ref=ts&fref=ts and welcome if you are in town!
The Shell
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"The Shell" illustration for "The Shell" by Syrian author Mustafa Khalifa.
The text has been translated from arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette and it has also been translated into chinese, by Francis Li Zhuoxiong. The bio-text from Asymptote explains in a very fine way who Khalifa is, and what the text is about:
"Mustafa Khalifa (b.1948) is a Syrian author who was imprisoned for more than twelve years by the Syrian regime for his political activities as a member of the leftist opposition to the regime of Hafez al-Assad. From 1982-1994, Khalifa was held without trial at various state security prisons, including the infamous Tadmur Military Prison, a detention center described as a "kingdom of death and madness" by poet Faraj Bayraqdar and the "absolute prison" by dissident Yassin al-Haj Salih. He is the author of The Shell, which has been lauded as one of the finest examples of Arabic prison literature, and which has been translated into French as La Coquille. He currently lives in exile, where he continues to write against the al-Assad regime."
Read the full text here.
Zugzwang
illustration for the short story "Transglottism" from the book "Zugzwang", by Eduard Màrquez. Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti.
Transglottism was the first illustration I started working on for Asymptote, in november last year. The story takes place in a stuffy library auditorium, where a student and the simultaneous interpreter, in the middle of the boredom starts and amorous affair, through the air and the airphones. It's a resourceful and amusing story and on the site there's also another beautiful short story by Eduard Màrquez, which I recommend you all to read.
Read the full story here.
Until a Hurricane Sweeps Through
"Until a Hurricane Sweeps Through",
ink and digital
illustration for Until a Hurricane Sweeps Through, by Margarita García Robayo, on Asymptote. Translated by Maureen Shaughnessy.
Here's a excerpt from the story:
"My first flight was to Miami. It was the busiest international route in the city, and also the most sought after: I competed and I won. I wanted to go to Miami because buying things is cheap and the weather is warm and because the men aren't gringos. Young flight attendants don't like gringos because they don't know how to fuck; the older ones do, but they don't fuck anymore.
Have you been to Miami? I asked Julian. He said he had, but I could tell he was lying. Julian was watching TV in my living room, a boxing match was on. My brother was in the shower because they were going to a party. My mom was on the phone with my grandma, some relative's cousin had died. My dad had gone out to pay some traffic fines."
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From Taiwan to the World and Back
"From Taiwan to the World and Back" ink, watercolor, digital
Illustration for "From Taiwan to the World and Back" by Fu-chen Lo and Jou-chin Chen, translated by Lee Yew Leong.
Two texts circulating around the "228 Incident", an uprising in Taiwan in 1947. Here's an extract from the second text:
"When the tragic and senseless 228 Incident occurred, I was still very much a child. Trauma was in the air; I knew that something had happened, but I didn't understand what exactly. But an episode about two years later awakened me to it fully. I was fourteen years old, in my second year of junior high, when I had a gun pointed at me by a military officer who then escorted me to a police station, where I was detained overnight..."
Read the full story here.
The Hay Smells Different to the Lovers Than to the Horses
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"The Hay Smells Different to the Lovers Than to the Horses"
ink and digital
2013-2014
Illustration for "The Hay Smells Different to the Lovers Than to the Horses" by german author Philipp Schönthaler.
An excerpt from the translator Amanda DeMarco's note:
"The Hay Smells Different to the Lovers Than to the Horses" comes from the 2012 collection of stories, Life Opens Upward, which explores the psyches of high-performance athletes. Schönthaler's 2013 debut novel similarly examines the pressures associated with pursuing a career in our high-performance society. Whether it's the stress of athletics or professional achievement, the formal question—what happens when people try to 'optimize' themselves?—underlies the specific human dramas that unfold in these two books....."
Read the full story here
Farthest from Death
"Farthest from Death" ink and digital, 2013-2014
illustration for "Farthest from Death" by Elina Hirvonen
Read the full story here
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