Perhaps one of the most important secrets of success in life is the strong will, the challenge and not giving in to the frustration of others, while finding innovative ways to think outside the usual framework, which is what the Norwegian Jan Haakon Eriksen relied on, the plastic artist who made himself a distinguished success and insisted on it regardless of the difficulties and even if he presented his life At risk or described by some as “crazy”.
Eriksen, the 43-year-old, who graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, owns a distinguished and unique school in creating content on social media platforms, and has become proficient in the art of destroying things, especially balloons or spaghetti strips, until he called the content he offers “Diary of Destruction.” Where he presents daily a video that does not exceed seconds in “pop balloons” using sharp weapons such as knives, saws, and others.
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Eriksen appears in the videos that he publishes, and he has allocated a separate room in his house to be the preferred theater for his strange activity as he breaks things and pops balloons in very cumbersome ways using complex machines made of wood and metal and various tools, and chaotic kinetic energy, and the quality of humor and entertainment, and whatever that cost him from Tools and dangers that could have ended his life.
Eriksen described himself as a “balloon destroyer”, and he risked his body in many clips by approaching dangerously with knives, axes and saws, to the point that on one occasion, during one of the filming of one of his works during April 2020, he was injured in his hand and foot after a “knife” fell on him. It necessitated 25 stitches and multiple trips to the hospital, yet Eriksen continued his adventures and even made him more determined to complete his dream, which he believed in, no matter how some considered him to be doing something “trivial” or useless.
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Eriksen’s works have become a subject of interest to his followers around the world, and they are waiting for the daily clip in which balloons pop or destroy anything, and immediately achieve millions of views, which are displayed on his account on Instagram, YouTube or other social media platforms.
Because of Eriksen’s successes, his art has been shown in more than 40 exhibitions throughout Norway and also in many international exhibitions, and his work has also appeared in many international film festivals.
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