![A picture of a carnival i Oslo at night. Dark sky and the carnival is full of colors and light.](http://eirikostbakken.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/bjorn-eirik-ostbakken-photo-modern-art-sic-contemporary-samtidskunst-1024x683.jpg)
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![A picture of a carnival i Oslo at night. Dark sky and the carnival is full of colors and light.](http://eirikostbakken.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bjorn-eirik-ostbakken-photo-modern-art-sic-contemporary-samtidskunst-framed-1024x645.jpg)
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.