Ragnhild Nes When words attack the invisible they are erased.

Curator Truls Blaasmo.

The pinnacle of her emotions reached the maximum synesthetic level with the excursion to the Etna volcano, like Emily Lowe, an English traveler who visited Sicily in 1857 and extolled the beauty of the landscape. Inspired by the poems of Emily Dickinson, Nes identifies the Etna volcano with life itself, energy and pain, where the red of the lava and the black contrast at the same time with the blinding light of the sun. The artist's spirit has immersed herself completely in the being of the world that surrounds her and by immersing herself in this unique territory she has grasped its real essence, which finds fulfillment in her canvases. His works arise from a poetic creativity, which arises from the word, from language. 
Writing and the creative moment of writing is his way of contextualizing an emotion, a reflection, a dream, a heartbeat and capturing a glimpse of and in time. For Nes, poetry from the Greek poiesis is creation, which in a synesthetic relationship mixes various sensorial and visual perceptions. Painting, like words, fixes living things in time and space, they become overlapping images that float on top of each other without convergence. 
His poems are his breath and the colors are his words with which Nes writes his lyrics. They are fragments of the world, in which things are no longer things. They have been deprived of essence and the objects have disappeared, but they are transformed into streaks, illuminated surfaces, stylized landscapes, in which color acquires great expressive and chromatic strength. The present moment which is the only moment we live, is filled with colours, impressions, and the blue of the sky becomes visible without the word "sky". When words attack the visible they are erased.