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Eldar Einarson’s Visual World — Now Available to All
My husband Eldar turns 79 today, and it feels like the perfect day to launch his life-affirming project, GaffGaff Galleri. With his lifelong experience and unwaveringly positive attitude, he is an adventurer in his own right. I would describe him as a combination of kindness, curiosity, inventiveness, and a refusal…
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A Life-Affirming Journey — From Cancer to Art
After more than 60 years as a photographer, film director, and writer, my husband Eldar now finds himself in the middle of what has become his most personal project: Digitalpoetism & Beyond. Here, his photography, imagination, and digital tools come together in a new visual language. Some of his works…
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GaffGaff Galleri: Opening Soon
When I was young, I believed that humanity learned from its mistakes. I believed that peace on earth would become a natural part of old age. I was completely wrong. But growing older has given me something else: the opportunity to work creatively, using all my knowledge. I have more…
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Self-Deception and the Courage to Seek the Truth
History does not repeat itself because we lack information. It recurs because we prefer comfort to truth. From ancient Greece to present-day Russia and the United States, the same mechanism is evident. It is as if we never learn. In my previous essay, I wrote that nothing guarantees that the…
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Meaning of Life: On Self-Deception and Reality
I have looked up at the starry sky and wondered about existence for as long as I can remember. Is there meaning? Or is everything merely a strange coincidence? But the stars are far. The universe does not answer. It remains vast, cold, and silent. Albert Camus called this silence…
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How Trumpism Was Exposed—100 Years Ago
In an earlier essay, The Law of Power – Ten Rules for Dirty Games, I quoted Austrian satirist Karl Kraus’s observation on demagogues: the demagogue’s secret is to make himself as stupid as his followers, so the followers can see themselves as intelligent as the leader. I want to build…
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The Law of Power: Ten Rules for Dirty Games
I am Norwegian, and as a child, my father told me about a law said to originate in Jante, a fictional small town in Denmark with its own moral code, the Law of Jante. The Danish-Norwegian author Axel Sandemose formulated it to expose the mechanisms of small-town social control, in…
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The Year of the Fire Horse
According to Chinese astrology, we are soon entering the Year of the Fire Horse. It inspired me to create a strange, motionless image for our unsettled time. In Chinese astrology, the Fire Horse is associated with power, courage, movement, and will. It is a sign traditionally linked to action, independence,…
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The Magic of Myth Made in Davao: Majestic Flights in the Pegasus Series
There’s a reason mythical creatures have captured our imaginations for centuries. With the Pegasus Series, I wanted to channel that feeling of wonder and freedom, the sensation of soaring through a dreamy sky, unbound by gravity or expectation. As a child, I was fascinated by glossy angel cards, and as…
