Peterix

I haven’t been active here for years, but I sometimes visit dA out of nostalgia, like taking a stroll in an old familiar neighbourhood where you once lived. I have bittersweet memories of my time here. It was here that began my journey as an artist, and it was here I met and befriended so many other talented artists. Beautiful souls that I’m still friends with. I also saw this place change into something that I no longer felt familiar or comfortable with. But I guess that happens with all old haunts. They change. You change. It’s just life...   I have taken my creative endeavours elsewhere. If you’d like to follow them, you can find me here:   https://www.instagram.com/peter_x_eriksson/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterix/ https://www.threads.com/@peter_x_eriksson I’m also on the new and very promising Foto app - https://fotoapp.co/   You can also find my books and my blog on my website: https://peterxeriksson.com   Take care, and keep creating!

Sometimes you get these wonderful assignments that you actually would be willing pay for. :) When the kind people over at the Spanish publisher Quaderns Crema asked if they could use my photo ' Wheels of Time ' as the cover for a collection of poetry by no one less than Edgar Allan Poe, I had to stop myself from shouting "F¤%k YES!!!!!" into their ears. :) Nicest check off my bucket list ever. :) http://www.quadernscrema.com/llibres/poesia_poe

Lately I’ve thought a lot about dreams. Dreamers get a lot of crap. Get called naïve, lazy, having the head in the clouds and not being in touch with reality. That last bit is sort of half-true. Being a dreamer, I always see reality as a work in progress. There are always things that need to be changed, added or improved. I think those who see dreamers in a negative way are non-dreamers that live under two delusions: 1. That everything around us has always been there, and popped into existence unaided, like a virgin birth. 2. That dreamers are lazy slackers that imagine that they can change the world, sleep ‘til noon, and get laid (not nec...