Special visits will be arranged during the International Printmaking Conference, IMPACT. In addition, the gallery is open to 11 p.m. at the Night of Arts on Thursday evening, 30 Aug
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The exhibition is recommended for participants of IMPACT 2nd International Printmaking Conference, organized by the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Media Centre Lume, 29.8. - 2.9. 2001

Within A Touch - Kosketuksen päässä - På näravstånd

Painting With Camera, II - Maalauksia kameralla II - Målningar med kameran II

It was challenging to apply the method of painting camera to a new theme after August 2000, when I discovered it for the first time. Using it in the vicinity of another person was like opening doors into her mind, her soul.
It remained a mystery, whether I was looking at her mind's landscape or at my own, where she was present.

What is there Within A Touch? To me there is something deeply truthful, something that I wanted to describe with an extremely gentle paintbrush. That Something was very difficult to capture, like molding a sculpture from unvisible, elusive substance.

Capturing that feeling through the viewfinder of my camera was the most essential issue to me. Time, effort and financial expenses were of less importance. As I wanted to make it to perfection I chose the most advanced digital art print technique, Giclée. It includes UV resistant inks and completely acid free, UNCOATED aquarelle paper. - Let its silky surface preserve my vision for ever! I feel I achieved what I was pursuing...

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