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Road of Resistance (8:48), 2024 Acrylic paint & oil pastels

#impro painting #my art #abstract art #neon art #oil pastels #colourful art #made in little over 9 minutes minus the base colour

"What does Utopia look like?" 2024

#digital art #my art #digital painting #sketch #utopia #concept art #unfortunately this did not come to be as is

Girlypop, detail, 2024

#long since i posted in here...!#my art #collage #girlypop #mixed media #study in girlhood #study in girlhood as a nonbinary person #art as gender study

"punk was never" this and that.

#punk was always queer #punk was always femme #punk was always leftist #etcetc #rage art #collage #my art #digital collage

Studies in identity 1: Origin, 2022

The first part of the work is a deliberate, carefully thought-out representation of Finnishness, a certain vision of an idealized history and identity with the underlying themes of foreign influences like the Russian rule. It includes pages from my late grandfather’s passport, specifically the pages from his trips to Saint Petersburg and other previously soviet cities. There are cuttings of old Finnish postcards, family album photos, a Helsinki postal stamp and dried flowers picked from near my childhood home. The snippets of text are cut from a work booklet from Tampere Art Museum’s exhibition around Magnus Enckell.

The second part aims to mix vintage elements with contemporary, strange and “foreign” imagery. This part includes a page from a Swedish-Finnish dictionary, cuttings from fashion magazines like VOGUE, advertisements, discarded photos and once again text from the Tampere Art Museum booklet.

Text in pictures: (Land of the midnight sun) / What is or is not Finnishness? / What kind of power is connected to the definition of Finnishness? / Are you observing something familiar? / How about unfamiliar?