I have created printing plates using photographs of soap bubbles and cactuses.
Printmaking is a process of repeated movements. Each repetition is similar to the previous one, yet different. A bit like breathing. While cleaning a plate and mixing the colors, I make decisions that shape the reality of the work. When I select a heavy dark color, the soap bubble becomes an iron ball. If I use translucent paste and add some pearl dust with a brush, the cactus spines turn into sparkling fuzz.
As an artist, I am free to decide what is heavy and what is light.
“Sometimes it feels like the world is a balloon traveling towards a cactus park…” Dave Lindholm
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The exhibition has been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and VISEK.