Vintergatan (Winter Street) is Swedish for the Milkyway, and is also the title of this painting.
The winter here in the Nordics can be very cold and inhospitable.
The work is about a psychological state of confinement and desolation.
Perhaps an omen of what awaits our planet when all life is long gone.
The paradox is that the place where this image came from is Pompeii, not the future but the past.
In 79 BC, the city was covered with ash and lava.
The black empty window frames give an abstract impression.
I remember that I was pleased working with an oilbar that felt like a piece of chalk, drawing the black structure on the wall.
I wanted the shadow on the ground to feel soft and the sky crisp and cold.
The wall straight ahead is a cul-de-sac or a blind alley.