Jocke Larsson Fine Art

Nestled within the quiet hum of Lion’s Milk Cafe in Brooklyn, my artwork Into the Blue will be on display for the coming month — an offering of color and contemplation to the passerby seeking warmth, caffeine, or maybe something deeper.

The piece, born from introspection and a yearning for stillness in motion, now resides within a neighbourhood known for its ever-evolving identity. Brooklyn, once a city of its own before joining the greater sprawl of New York in 1898, has long been a cradle of reinvention, a place where artists, thinkers, and dreamers reimagine what it means to belong.

This borough, layered with stories from the Dutch settlers of Breuckelen to the poetry of Walt Whitman and the street murals of Bushwick, pulses with contradictions — old and new, rooted and restless. To have Into the Blue displayed in such a setting is more than a personal milestone; it’s a quiet dialogue with history. The artwork seeks to mirror the way Brooklyn holds memory and future in the same breath. There is something poetic in how an artwork inspired by solitude now exists in a space shaped by community, noise, and motion.

My gratitude to Lion’s Milk Cafe runs deep. Their decision to host this work is an act of belief — not just in me, but in the shared human instinct to pause and look, to be moved by shape and color, to let art whisper in between sips of coffee. In a world racing toward the next thing, thank you for making room for reflection.

Brooklyn, with its ever-changing face, reminds us that beauty often lies in the temporary, and I’m honoured to have Into the Blue be part of this fleeting yet eternal moment.

“Into the Blue” displayed at Lion’s Milk Cafe in Brooklyn, NY, April 2025.