Works in process.

I have my first ever solo show coming up next March at Arkadia International Bookshop. I've settled on a working title for the exhibition: Hippies And Hipsters. I'm going through my father's photographs from the 1970s when he was about my age as well as my own, finding similarities in the ways young people pose and want to be photographed.

The idea of us branding ourselves and hiding behind labels like "hippie" or "hipster" is very interesting to me. I don't want to judge or praise, just state that it's something people my age do in western culture.

I've been searching for a way to combine acrylic paint and woodcut printmaking and I think I'm finally finding marks and little visual things that I want to pursue. 

Beeswax experiments, each about 10 x 15 cm. I want to try this on a larger scale.

Our art history lecturer believes us making things based upon what we learn from his lectures will teach us more than writing essays about -say- pre-historic views on deities. An essay may have been less hassle, but coming up with a god-like figure for an exact need was a lot more fun. Mine was for clarity when faced with many options. And they call it school!

P.s. I took part in the community art project  PS.doc at Kuopio Art Museum by sending a postcard to the current owner of my childhood home.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I've been making one-ish a day for a while now.