Mushrooms Kalmar´s

by Maureen Goecke

When I moved to Sweden, I was fascinated by the nature surrounding my neighbourhood. During the month of October 2021, I did my own personal challenge of painting one mushroom per day from my forest walks. I ended up with this collection, which during the following year I scanned and turned it into a poster of Kalmar’s mushrooms.

Adventskalender, 2022

This project was commissioned to me by a client that had a very specific idea on mind. She wanted to recreate a family treasure, an adventskalender she had when she was little but lost during a fire. She described her vision of how the structure and the images should be on it. For example, she wanted a representation of Chile’s Lake Region flora and fauna on one of the panels.

The design was delivered in a digital format that the client could print by herself and give to her relatives.

“We are united, we are not at war” 2019

18th of October of 2019, a Social Outbreak occured in Chile. After a series of the biggest protests that the country have ever witnessed, the president of the nation declared that “We are at War.”

While many artists where focusing their attention to the violence perpetuated against the protesters, I wanted to focus around the idea of unity that could be seen between the people that were on the streets protesting for their basic human rights.

In 2020, my illustration was selected among others to be part of the book “18.10: Visual Reflection of the Social Outbreak in Chile“ of the Nauta Colecciones editorial. The free download link of its digital version can be found at: https://nautacolecciones.com/tienda/

Memento Mori, 2013

This book was the product of a series of interviews to people who worked around the concept of Death like nurses, undertakers, grave sellers, pathological anatomy doctors and lawyers. The short stories where inspired by their experiences. After writing the book, I also did the illustrations, editorial and graphic design work. It can be found (in Spanish) on the Issuu platform at: https://issuu.com/maureenhannagoeckeenos/docs/memento_mori