<![CDATA[NOTES ETC by Camilla Howalt]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.nethttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W4n2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc3d02cef-c479-4088-8e1d-8ca8f0048947_1287x1284.jpegNOTES ETC by Camilla Howalthttps://notes.camillahowalt.netSubstackMon, 13 Apr 2026 02:17:52 GMT<![CDATA[WALLS THAT SPEAK]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/walls-that-speak-493https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/walls-that-speak-493Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:01:52 GMTThis blog post about frescoes, by Camilla Howalt, explores how walls carry stories, from ancient frescoes to Renaissance masterpieces. It provides an overview of the pigments, myths, and symbolic narratives that give walls their presence, highlighting Giotto, Cimabue, and Byzantine icons, and considers how walls continue to speak through mark-making and memory into the 20th century.

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A fresco by Cimabue’s Crucifixion - Upper Church, Assisi

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]]><![CDATA[ON THE EDGE OF THE WORK]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/on-the-edge-of-the-workhttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/on-the-edge-of-the-workFri, 26 Sep 2025 11:16:10 GMTThere are moments in the studio when the work seems to move on its own. That which through the artist emerges as raw and magnetic - is perhaps even beautiful but also deeply unsettling and at times terrifying. In this blog post, Camilla Howalt reflects on the panic, shame, fear of intimacy and exhilaration that arise when creativity transcends control, revealing that the true practice lies in showing up and embracing the presence of the work itself.

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]]><![CDATA[Maps of Joint Dis•ease]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/maps-of-joint-diseasehttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/maps-of-joint-diseaseFri, 22 Aug 2025 07:27:47 GMTFour Weeks in The Danish Institute in Rome

In this NOTES ETC blog post, Camilla Howalt’s Maps of Joint Dis•ease project explores how memory and experience leave traces in material, merging ideas of classical and contemporary fresco techniques with photographic transfers during a forthcoming Rome residency.

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]]><![CDATA[Negative Dialectics in the Play of Nature and Culture: Homophones and Artistic Presence]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/negative-dialectics-in-the-play-ofhttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/negative-dialectics-in-the-play-ofMon, 21 Jul 2025 09:30:56 GMTHomophones and Artistic Presence

In this reflective piece, Camilla Howalt explores the fertile tensions between nature and culture through the lens of Adorno’s negative dialectics. Using homophones like llama/lama, monk/mink, and otter/other, she reveals subtle poetic gaps where presence emerges not from resolution but from paradox. Through grids, fruit, and symbolic interplay, the text invites us into spaces where the natural and the cultural, the sensual and the ascetic, co-exist in unresolved, generative tension.

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]]><![CDATA[The Council of Creatures: On Dream, Memory, and the Rewriting of the Ideal]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/the-council-of-creatures-on-dreamhttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/the-council-of-creatures-on-dreamWed, 09 Jul 2025 19:49:14 GMTA Council of Creatures

What if the symbols in our dreams aren’t trying to teach us something new, but to return something we once gave away? In this reflective essay, a vivid dream of a parrot by the Copenhagen lakes becomes a lens for exploring how memory, longing, and imagination intertwine. Through the figure of the bird - bright, strutting, and gently impossible - we encounter the shift from idealisation to integration, from projection to creative agency.

This is not a story about escape, but about return. To a place, a voice, a self that no longer needs to reach outward to be in dialogue. The dream becomes a quiet map - a philosophical artefact - for those navigating complex relationships with memory, art, and the creatures that guide us.

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]]><![CDATA[STRANGE FRUIT: On Grids, Etching, and Mythic Resonance]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/strange-fruit-on-grids-etching-andhttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/strange-fruit-on-grids-etching-andTue, 01 Jul 2025 11:13:13 GMTIn STRANGE FRUIT, artist Camilla Howalt explores the tension between structure and myth through a triptych of hand-burned grids, photographic transfers, and symbolic layering. Drawing from ancient etching practices, personal cosmology, and the loaded resonance of the pomegranate, the work weaves together themes of memory, ritual, and descent - opening a contemplative space where beauty and grief intersect.

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]]><![CDATA[TRYING BEAUTY]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/trying-beauty-ccchttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/trying-beauty-cccThu, 15 May 2025 13:14:00 GMTThis space is for those drawn to the in-between,
the unfinished, and the unfolding.

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]]><![CDATA[Welcome to CAMILLA HOWALT NOTES]]>https://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/welcome-to-notes-by-camilla-howalthttps://notes.camillahowalt.net/p/welcome-to-notes-by-camilla-howaltFri, 25 Apr 2025 07:15:15 GMTDear Reader,

I’m so glad you’re here.

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Camilla Howalt

Self Portrait by Camilla Howalt 2024

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