Tumblr (3.0; @tonjek)http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcyxqpq3U1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>“Nothing you become will ever disappoint me; I have no preconception that i’d like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you.”</p> <p>Siena by Tonje Kristiansen</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/17581351447http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/17581351447Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:04:00 -0800mother<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WD8obvIK720?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Love Drive. Love Driving.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/17407471016http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/17407471016Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:58:00 -0800LA<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymmrpnYU71qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Kate Hughes & Tonje Kristiansen by Alison Figg.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/16771689140http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/16771689140Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:43:00 -0800la<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymmohKZsq1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Kate Hughes & Tonje Kristiansen by Alison Figg.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/16771634474http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/16771634474Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:42:00 -0800la<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqcmlgknGU1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Eva Munoa in my short film “The Sparkling”</p> <p>Photo by Tonje Kristiansen.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/9264865527http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/9264865527Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:38:49 -0700love<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqc9ynB0c51qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Eva Munoa. “The Sparkling”.</p> <p>Photo by Tonje Kristiansen.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/9255313048http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/9255313048Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:02:00 -0700Love<iframe width="400" height="249" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8UibsjY5K-c?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/6017871770http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/6017871770Mon, 30 May 2011 16:38:04 -0700love<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llo85qge4D1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>You know who I am</p> <p>You’ve stared at the sun</p> <p>I am the one who loves changing</p> <p>from nothing to one.</p> <p>“Mum” Tonje Kristiansen photgraphed by my daughter Siena.</p> <p>Lyrics by Leonard Cohen.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/5781498199http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/5781498199Mon, 23 May 2011 16:09:00 -0700mother<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llo7umavxg1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Now I am a shadow </p> <p>I long for the boundaries</p> <p>of my wandering</p> <p>and I move</p> <p>with the energy of your prayer</p> <p>and i move</p> <p>in the direction of your prayer</p> <p>Leonard Cohen. This is for you.</p> <p>“Love me, tie me” by Edvarda Braanaas</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/5781313100http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/5781313100Mon, 23 May 2011 16:03:52 -0700love<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkidcbK5oU1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p><span>Edvarda Braanaas paintings always originate in a directorial vision in the artist’s mind, where the composition and design of elements quite literally conspire to create the “big picture”. From the massive “Melting Pot” to her portraits of the women in Dostoyevsky’s novels, her paintings are unafraid to tackle grand universal themes like religion, sexuality, and human relations, and combine to present their own, unique metaphysical state.</span></p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/5095749669http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/5095749669Sun, 01 May 2011 01:40:00 -0700love<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lka6r6yYW41qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Drawing by Jenny Vagan</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4967495217http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4967495217Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:35:53 -0700various<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lka6owV1O21qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Palm Springs.</p> <p>Photo by Tonje Kristiansen.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4967448505http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4967448505Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:34:00 -0700dreams<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lka6dqaB6m1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Coachella by Tonje Kristiansen</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4967272539http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4967272539Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:28:00 -0700various<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljkb89lMZ81qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>For as much as Crewdson’s secret inner life is surely revealed by his photographs,on viewing them one’s own secret inner life is revealed too, at least to oneself.</p> <p>And revelation produces change. You have to expose yourself to an alternative world, a fictional world, if you will, and enter it.</p> <p>A world where<span> you can reside long enough to furnish it with your preexisting memories, dreams and reflections…</span></p> <p><span><br/></span></p> <p> Projected Photograph by Gregory Crewdson.</p> <p> Photo of Tonje Kristiansen by Marie Kristiansen.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4564425813http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4564425813Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:20:00 -0700dreams<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljkanvlrpb1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Gregrory Crewdson photo.</p> <p>Tonje Kristiansen and S by Marie Kristiansen</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4564014397http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/4564014397Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:06:00 -0700mother<p><strong><em>“…I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanence, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.”</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em> Sally Mann</em></strong></p> <strong><em><br/></em></strong>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998690222http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998690222Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:34:54 -0700<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liea8rsbEz1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Photo by Sally Mann</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998683988http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998683988Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:34:19 -0700dreams<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liea42u6Bh1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>My mother Vibeke Lokkeberg in her 20’s.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998666569http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998666569Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:32:45 -0700mother<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liea1pK25V1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Gena Rowlands In Faces.</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998643113http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3998643113Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:30:39 -0700various<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li19667Afb1qbb764.jpg"/></p> <p>Severine Martorell in my documentary project “Wife in the Wilderness”.</p> <p>Photo by Tonje Kristiansen</p>http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3850045995http://www.tonjekristiansen.com/post/3850045995Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:41:00 -0700Various