Heirs of Time
Photography / 2014 / pigment prints on aquarelle paper / edition of 5
Heirs of Time (Ajan jälkeläiset) is a collection of views painted with water colours on a bowl of water and then captured as photographs through long exposure time.
Painting on water is like writing a diary entry from decades ago - an attempt to reach what is lost and resists a clear form. I painted outlines of various views from memory; Italian villages, nocturnal gardens and overgrown forest paths.
The resulting photographs document the desperate process of recollection - as wandering masses of colour and entwining shapes, with only a haunting suggestion of the scene from which they originate.
The photographs are printed on aquarelle paper. Works from the series have been exhibited at a solo show in Mikkeli Photographic Centre in 2014 and at Lokal Gallery in Helsinki in 2015.
"Moths in the Garden" / "Koiperhosia puutarhassa", 2014, 50 x 40 cm
"Murattikäytävä ennen umpeenkasvamistaan" / "Ivy corridor before overgrowing", 2014, 40 x 50 cm
"Katoavan kesän hahmotelma" / "Figure of a disappearing summer" 2013, 50 x 40 cm
"Pohjoisia valoja" / "Lights from the north" 2014, 50 x 40 cm
"Jäänne toiselta ajalta" / "Remnant from another era" 2014, 50 x 40 cm
"Huhtikuun kuumeinen horisontti" / "Feverish April Horizon" 2014, 50 x 40 cm
"Tapahtumia joen pohjalla" / "At the bottom of the river" 2013, 50 x 40 cm
"Hiekkamyrsky" / "Sandstorm" 2014, 50 x 40 cm
"Jäänne tulevalta ajalta" / "Remnant from a coming era" 2014, 30 x 30 cm
"Kolibrikuvitelma" / "Hummingbirg illusion" 2014, 40 x 60 cm