Random Prints vol. 2

Last year I started this project I call "my own personal art therapy" - Random Prints. The idea is, that I made a series of 90 numbered and signed prints which I left all over when I was travelling. I've left teh prints in envelopes to random people to find and to keep. I hoped that those who found them would have filled in a small enquiry to tell me where the prints have ended up.

This year I'm going to make an interrai trip in Central Europe, and I've made a new print, called The Essence of Whispering Tree, which I'm going to leave to people to find.

I have written the last year's travels and whereabouts of the Random Prints vol.1 prints to Random Prints blog at randomprints.blogspot.com - and this year - hopefully - the stories will be continued.

Tunne maisema

Tunne maisema is a Jyväskylä Art Museum project can be interpreted in two ways: "Know your scenery" or "feel your scenery". The art museum project shows different view on interpretation of scenery and our environment via connecting works by pronounced Finnish painters Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 -1931) and Pekka Halonen (1865 -1933) to some modern art, like photography and paintings. I made the visual design for the Tunne maisema site and I also executed the whole site. It contains the introduction of the works and artists, some extra information about the context of the artist (for example timelines of Gallen-Kallela's and Halonen's lives) different kind of tasks for both adults and school children and also a "sound scenery" of how the sounds affect the pictures. So, massive project.

My brain almost popped with this one. But surprise: not with the actual project: we had a couple of very efficient meetings during spring and talked all the content through. With so many people everything could have gone wrong in so many ways, but it didn't. I got the material early, I got a lot freedom to do the things however I wanted as long as the mainpoint came out right (which actually always helps a lot!), there were only a few things to be changed... but my web connection went totally off on the beginning of June, just when the project was truly starting on my part. So, I have a key for wireless connection and though it was a saviour, in the end I had to finish this massive project with really slow mobile connection. But after a lot of ()=/#)(¤/)(# and a lot of ####¤)(#/)¤/ I got it online - this morning early.

*Phuh.*

Only in Finnish: www.tunnemaisema.fi