Simon Stålenhag

The feeling of reality kicking it's ugly boot through the door to the most sacred, most fantastic, most untouched of your childhood fantasies and stories is very strong in the works of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. 

The way he combines the most everyday items and locations with the fantastic is spectacular, and I must admit I've never seen anything like it.

Sometimes you're stuck with an image depicting enormous constructions falling apart, rusting and littering the countryside like leftovers from a huge saving-humanity-as-we-know-it experiment gone wrong. Or maybe even gone right, and this is what remains afterwards; A mess next to the highway that people has to pass in their everyday business. 

In our stories we always focus on the heroes, the scientists, the military men, the characters in the middle, but what would the world look like to the regular people after the threat was defeated, and life continued it's regular beat? Probably a lot like this...