One of the [many] highlights of my trip to Stockholm was Moderna Museet, the modern art museum. There was an incredible exhibition there featuring the work of Hilma af Klint. I had never heard of Klint before, but was completely blown away by her work. She was ahead of her time in so many ways: her paintings represent the mystical and the metaphysical and were among some of the first abstract art. To be such an independently-minded woman working as a successful, visionary artist at the very beginning of the 20th century is incredible.
Her work is ridden with symbols; a marriage of mathematics, philosophy, and nature. Such a cool lady.
