SIC – Artwork from the Conjoined series

A picture of a carnival i Oslo at night. Dark sky and the carnival is full of colors and light.
Sic ©Eirik Østbakken

[Sic] in square brackets is an editing term used with quotations or excerpts. It means “that’s really how it appears in the original.” It is used to point out a grammatical error, misspelling, misstatement of fact, or, as above, the unconventional spelling of a name.

A picture of a carnival i Oslo at night. Dark sky and the carnival is full of colors and light.
Sic ©Eirik Østbakken

My art visualize the anxiety and frustration that can arise when we are in a situation or a place we cannot escape, like illness, poverty, integration, unemployment, violence, griev, puberty, alcoholism, drug/substance addiction and solitude.

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