Back in 2013, my youngest brother gifted me Sticky Monsters by John Kenn Mortensen, a brilliant Danish artist who draws monsters on yellow Post-it notes. When I moved to Sweden, I took almost all of my books (something I’d live to regret), including this one. I was forever flicking through it, obsessing over Kenn’s meticulous detailing of dark and dreadful things. I ended up cutting out most of the pictures and framing them in tiny wooden picture frames I found at a thrift store. (I’ve never been able to find similar frames since.) I hung around ten pictures (in the shape of an inverted cross) on the kitchen wall of the apartment I lived in with my partner, and they were on the wall until we split. I recently retrieved some things I’d had to leave in Sweden when we broke up, though 80% of my possessions, including all but two framed pictures, had been thrown in the trash.
A Wyrd Of Her Own 