In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Karina May shows us the lino prints that furnish her apartment – after she purged an ex’s ‘Astro Boy’ aesthetic
‘I’d gone on the trip and survived … hanging these pictures was a real icing on the cake’: author Karina May on her pear and artichoke prints by Monika Petersen.‘I’d gone on the trip and survived … hanging these pictures was a real icing on the cake’: author Karina May on her pear and artichoke prints by Monika Petersen.Last modified on Sat 11 Feb 2023 19.02 GMT
In 2012, author Karina May’s long-term relationship had reached its expiry. “It was a bad breakup,” she says.But instead of abandoning the European vacation she had planned in a last-ditch effort to save the union, she sold her ex-partner’s ticket to a friend and went anyway. “I was definitely moping in the beginning,” May says. But midway through the trip she found her mojo and was “taking back her power”.Wandering into a quaint studio in the cobblestone streets of Copenhagen’s Nyhavn district, without “someone moaning and dragging their feet”, was one of them. Here, May found the work of Monika Petersen, a local printmaker who specialises in botanic art. She didn’t make a purchase on the spot, but memories of the day and the artworks stayed with her.
After returning from an overseas trip, May bought these prints online to furnish her renovated apartment.A year later, as she exorcised her ex’s “Astro Boy” aesthetic from the Sydney apartment they once shared, May says her thoughts drifted to that Copenhagen studio, “and how I had felt on that day”.
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