Olof and his dog Uller by gunsan

2D • People • posted on Dec 09, 2005

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I feel that this series will come to an end now, and here I show you the man Olof, who was kind to let me use his website material. www.oloft.com. As I said before, he has a section of it translated to English, about the reindeer year, how the herds wanders, and such things, but the other material (and it is a lot) is in Swedish. Here I combined two photos, one of Olof, and one of his beloved dog Uller standing beside him, and the dog's relatives. You can see the beautiful Sami dress Olof wears. The dresses are very colourful, blue is the dominant colour, combined with red and yellow mostly. The dresses vary a lot, special for every family or tribe. The old photos of the Sami children I showed you were in B&W, so the colours did not show there. I want to honour Olof with this image, both for his kindness to me, but mostly for what he does for the Sami people. He is very active politically, member of a parliamentary group, who handles all conflicts between the Samis and the landowners who go against the Sami's right to follow the herds on their lands since centuries. He writes articles in papers, participates in demonstrations for his peoples rights. Once they built a "k

Comments (19)

lak

1:17AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

an interesting man...a beautiful people....very nice tribute gun~

claridad

1:51AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Olof and you too Gun, are people after my own heart. I am so encouraged that there are still people interested in working to show and work for the preservation native cultures dignity and rights. Gun, you have done an excellent job of that with your series on the Sami people. I am amazed at how similar they are to Native Americans in both culture and the problems they face from outside the culture. Thank you for this wonderful exhibition. Please, maybe you could wander back every so often and share some of the other things you have, bit by bit. This is a wonderful painting of Olof and his Uller. V

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MrBacardi

2:07AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Great work. And being a swede I'm very happy that you choose this topic for this wonderful series of art. Indeed very inspiering :)

ModestyB

2:29AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Yes, I like this serie 2 :) P&K

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steve100

3:18AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Nice style, very well done.

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devineydesignsllc

7:03AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

nice composition!thankyou.

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2Loose2Trek

8:34AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Very nice composition and portrayal of a proud culture. Well done!

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kansas

8:57AM | Fri, 09 December 2005

This is so nice. Thanks for all your information and for this wonderful series. It would be nice to see some of their craft work. This is a wonderful composition. A proud and pleasant looking fellow. A lovely dog. Very beautiful work.

Egmont

12:34PM | Fri, 09 December 2005

I agree very much with what Suzanne AKA;claridad has written. I also wish to add that I find this artist rendering of yours looks very much like a painting in oil and not like a photograph trying to be a painting. Thank you for sharing and have a great weekend.

fractalinda

5:19PM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Your beautiful paintings exude charm and culture and character, Gun. Superb balance of light and dark, and the colors are clean and beautiful. Excellent work here.

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Digimon

5:29PM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Oh he looks so happy with all his dogs! That would be a wonderful life! love this series!!

wildfire2003

5:59PM | Fri, 09 December 2005

How beautifully you honor him Gun! I'll just bet he would love to have a copy of this on his site, I know I would if I were him!

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cindyx

6:08PM | Fri, 09 December 2005

Your series has been very meaningful, informative... and visually beautiful. I feel that I have been enlightened. This portrait of Olof and his dog is magnificent. I can feel the frosty air, and see the kindness in his face. You are a real artist. You not only have skill and imagination, but you have soul.

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sossy

3:43AM | Sat, 10 December 2005

a most beautiful and delightful painted portrait! :o)

cynlee

12:02AM | Sun, 11 December 2005

yes i have gun.. opened my eyes to another way of life & in your journey you may also find these adult children & again you will touch many others.. you have mine.. beautiful work as always dear gun.. squeeze ;]xx

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titta

3:24PM | Sun, 11 December 2005

Thank you, Gun, for this series! It's been wonderful to see them all. You've done really great job as well as a documentarist as an artist. Thanks again. :-)

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