Milla Marika / Printmaking & Illustration & Design

bridging gaps between visual and cerebral, personal and political, corporeal and real

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Ranta ja kaiku (2014)

A Beach and an Echo

6X7 format film with multiple exposures, negative cutting and custom-made negative filters placed in between the film back and camera body.

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Aitamaisema (2014)

Landscape with Fences

Ink, watercolor and gouache on paper

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Minä piirrän kissaa (kuka on kissa) (2014)

I am drawing a cat (who is a cat)

app. 35 X 22 cm

Linocut on rice paper

Lino for life! This is only a beginning - both for this piece and my lino adventures re-ignited after, urrr, 5 years or so.

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Distances 1-3 (Etäisyydet 1-3) (2014)

pigment printing on proofing paper, letter pressing on cardboard, suede, canvas

app. 25 X 25 X 1 cm

Artist book in three parts, all of which include thumbnail photos, 70 X 46 cm collage prints, and text (in Finnish). Edition: 5

The collage prints can be viewed also here.

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Golden Lion 2013 (2014)

woodcut on japanese kozo and gampi papers; gold leaf on paper; epson print

dimensions variable (dimensions of one print: 37-38 X 25 cm )

This group of 10 layered woodcuts is a sneak peek to something that will hopefully be part of my master's thesis exhibition next autumn / early spring. The larger set of woodcuts will be hung and arranged in a grid of maybe 5 X 4. The estimated number of individual sets of prints is 25, which will amount to ca 50 individual sheets of kozo, gambi, and canson.

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Manx (2014)

silkscreen on paper

76 X 112 cm

This print still lacks some silkscreen layers to be printed on separate sheets of gampi paper, also with silkscreen, and installed on varying distances from the paper surface. 

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Documentation and re-enactment of the piece 178 + 1 (2014)

Installed and displayed in Kuvan Kevät 2014, the degree show of the Academy of Fine Arts, 9.5.-1.6.2014

Lithography, imagon and monotype on Japanese paper and rice paper; laser print on printable sticker sheets

The explanation of the re-occurring number 178 is given out in the exhibition catalogue, and in a leaflet that includes the laser-printed and wall-mounted texts in Finnish:

Estimated number of police reports with identified homophobic, biphobic or heterophobic motives (type of offense: physical assault perpetrated upon the victim): 178

Source: Hate crime 2012, Report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, issue 2013:16

You can find the documentative images of the original pieces installed along a bus line in Gothenburg, Sweden, in here. Additionally, the original text in Finnish and Swedish can be found here.

Check out also the Exhibition views!

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Bodies in Transition (2013)

laser print, glue, mylar, indian ink, repair lacquer

app. 21 X 30 - 35 cm

The material for these collages was simply xerox-printed images from a mobile phone camera, accompanied with the ink-drawn talks and self-reflections triggered by amazing people I met during a short stay in St.Petersburg in 2013.

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Etäisyys (Distance, 2014)

part 1: Haydn

part 2: Ykskoivu

part 3: Raukea

pigment printing on proofing paper

70 X 46 cm

These collages constitute the core part of a book project. Pictures of the whole set will come later this spring! 

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Exercise on Presence 1 (2013)

intaglio, chine-collé and silkscreen on paper

40 X 34 cm

For saleee>

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Exercise on Presence 2 (2013)

intaglio, chine-collé and silkscreen on paper

55 X 75 cm

This print is for sale!

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ключи замки (Keys Locks, 2013)

Found object (drawer front panel), cardboard, paper, glue, book cloth, string, silkscreen and laser print on paper

Box app. 15 X 10 X 8 cm

Book 12 X 10 X 2 cm

Folded print (Keys Locks, part II) 75 X 63 cm

Through this project, emphasis on being in constant transition, in a process of change, and especially defying all definitions, begun to gain a more notable role in my thinking. I realized that de-familiarazation of the everyday environment and habits, and revelation of the hidden and the alternative, is really in the centre of my practitioning.

Check out also the exhibition views!

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Keys Locks (2013), part II

silkscreen on paper

75 X 63 cm

This print is for sale!

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Tänään luin Deleuzea ensimmäistä kertaa (Today I Read Deleuze for the First Time, 2013)

Silkscreen and chin-collé on paper

Size of each print: 37 X 23 cm

The work handles precisely what its name promises. In it, I have written down my first reactions and ponderings concerning Deleuze’s concept of difference. The larger body of text begins with “Today I read Deleuze little more”, and in it, I start to link my own thoughts on presence and the difficult of reaching a truly present state to Deleuze’s notion of pure difference. This work commenced my more analytical approach towards the concept of presence, and it showcases my preferred and fairly typical way of working: often, there is a background concept that interests me, a concept that I begin to study little. Concurrently to this studying, and inspired by it, I start to make pictures and write texts that illustrate my understanding of the concept, and aim at linking it to the underlying reasons why I became interested in the notion in the first place. In the end, I have a myriad of sundry prints that I often do not know how to install, but that are still inevitably meaningful in relation to each other.

These prints are for sale!

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Acts of Silencing, part 2.0: Dreams (2012-2013)

Carborundum, soft ground, and epson print on paper

6 prints, each 78 X 100 cm

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The Awakening (2013)

Silkscreen on paper

Several dozens of unique prints

sized app. 20 X 30 cm each

Exhibitions & Views includes some more shots under  "This will touch it (oh)".

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"This will touch it (Oh) on Flickr.

Kieli / Språk / Language (2013) and Untitled (2013) Two tiny animations, screened side by side, and here looped two times. For an exhibition named “This will touch it (oh)”, held with Megan S., autumn 2013. This will touch it (Oh) You know what I’m sayin’ And I haven’t said a thing - Kylie Minogue, Emiliana Torrini, Dan Carey