Writing into Painting

Pellehn Blum’s paintings are based on his most personal writing, usually poems, which are to him almost like a diary of fleeting thoughts and preoccupations. Each painting illustrates a line or verse from a poem, Pellehn Blum wrote beforehand. The works here are grouped according to the poem they belong to, being Nature Morte with Lobster and his wife Pearls, the only one fully illustrated to date.

Nature Morte with Lobster and his Wife Pearls

I water a desert with tears/ And reap tirelessly in the night, 2024. Oil on linen, 59 x 39 in
Wildflowers grow and die / To fill the basket of his sight, 2024. Oil on linen, 90 x 35 inches
My fanstasy of him is a lobster - red, 2024. Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches
Like the rotten apple I never ate, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in
In the drapes where grapes lay / A single candle burns away, 2024. Oil on linen 12 x 10 in
I wish I could be a trophy of the game / A tethered pheasant hung upside down, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in
But I am never in the kingdom of his aim / He prefers to keep pearls around instead / To play a game where nature is unfair, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in
My skull for a jug, wine of ambition - spills, 2024. Oil on linen, 12 x 16 in
A spoiled blue wildflower takes position / Through the wounds the cloth stains / Melted wax beneath the flame, 2024. Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches
I want to blind my eyes in the sand /Where my barren soil stands / Scream a song that makes a cloud cry, 2024. Oil on linen, 39 x 31 in
And maybe this comes to life / A whine is not enough, not a tear in my eye, 2024. 20 x 16 in
Pearls hide in oysters, feathers burn, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in
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A Shipwreck Scene (unfinished)

If your prayers were waves /He’d be the first drowned man/ To breathe underwater, alive/ Isn’t that all you ever wanted?, 2025. Oil on linen, 77x 89 in
And I worry if you’ll survive him/ Or if you’ll sail with him, leaving us, 2025. Oil on linen, 63 x 39 in

Whatever, I mean, Whenever (unfinished)

You should know better/ Than to deny a beggar / To fall into your trap, 2025. Oil on linen, 8 x 18 in
Philosophize me a river, I'll drink / In the weight intellectuals do, 2025. Oil on linen, 24 x 35 in
Until my head rolls chopped off / Only then your fantasy stops, 2025. Oil on linen, 71 x 118 in

Writing into Painting

I water a desert with tears/ And reap tirelessly in the night, 2024. Oil on linen, 59 x 39 in

Wildflowers grow and die / To fill the basket of his sight, 2024. Oil on linen, 90 x 35 inches

My fanstasy of him is a lobster - red, 2024. Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches

Like the rotten apple I never ate, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in

In the drapes where grapes lay / A single candle burns away, 2024. Oil on linen 12 x 10 in

I wish I could be a trophy of the game / A tethered pheasant hung upside down, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in

But I am never in the kingdom of his aim / He prefers to keep pearls around instead / To play a game where nature is unfair, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in

My skull for a jug, wine of ambition - spills, 2024. Oil on linen, 12 x 16 in

A spoiled blue wildflower takes position / Through the wounds the cloth stains / Melted wax beneath the flame, 2024. Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches

I want to blind my eyes in the sand /Where my barren soil stands / Scream a song that makes a cloud cry, 2024. Oil on linen, 39 x 31 in

And maybe this comes to life / A whine is not enough, not a tear in my eye, 2024. 20 x 16 in

Pearls hide in oysters, feathers burn, 2024. Oil on linen 20 x 16 in

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If your prayers were waves /He’d be the first drowned man/ To breathe underwater, alive/ Isn’t that all you ever wanted?, 2025. Oil on linen, 77x 89 in

And I worry if you’ll survive him/ Or if you’ll sail with him, leaving us, 2025. Oil on linen, 63 x 39 in

You should know better/ Than to deny a beggar / To fall into your trap, 2025. Oil on linen, 8 x 18 in

Philosophize me a river, I'll drink / In the weight intellectuals do, 2025. Oil on linen, 24 x 35 in

Until my head rolls chopped off / Only then your fantasy stops, 2025. Oil on linen, 71 x 118 in