BAMA Galleries

Mission Statement

The images of architecture that stand most firm in my mind are the ones I paint. They are as protectors that calm you from the thought that all memory is lost. The past is lost and yet the buildings still stand strong."

When I received my first bedroom in the house that I grew up in, my mother decided to put up new wall paper. In order to order to do this we started stripping the walls of the room in this house that was very old, 300 years. In one corner, by a pipe, there was a large crack, and when we started pealing, layers and layers of wallpaper appeared. We managed to look at every layer. I think it was seven or eight. Seven or eight life times all showing the style of the times.

This was not a fancy house; it was a real backyard house, in the center of Copenhagen. When digging in the foundation the builders found the remains of a Viking settlement. But they had to pour cement on it to save the present foundation.

Miranda Hellman

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