Swedish television showed an hour-long documentary about Tove Jansson earlier today. It was, as one would expect, great and once again it reminded me of that theory that the geometrical shapes we use when we draw has a foundation in how we ourselves are built. Concious or subconscious, the eclipses and circles, the rectangles and the squares — they’re there. I guess the loved ones also affects it a bit, seeing someone for a long time across a table or in a mirror matters in how the mind visualise and sends impulses.

In Tove, I think it’s switched in importance. The soft circular shapes are from people around her, and the angular and more pointy in some of the secondary characters comes from herself.