Importance of having free art colleges is the vital question at the moment, that making art will not become a class issue more than it already is.

6 marraskuun, 20178 heinäkuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

What Makes an Artist? – Grayson Perry and Sarah Thornton | Tate Talks

It is the very basic battle, a kind of violent arguing and taking sides of how to know what is art and decide about it strictly, or could it just be as simple as you like it as art, enjoy it as art. The same struggle goes on with who is an artist and can be an artist. Is it money that makes the professional, is it quality, network, school and family? To know is to know professional quality and understand the standing of the artist, how complex it all is. One definition does not apply for all. Measuring happens very often by evaluating skill, the artistry itself is the measure of how good an artist one is, how much effort and sweat art has taken to make. This idea is prized widely, what does skill tell us. We want to be blown away by craftsmanship, price and size, effort and extraordinary rare talent. Idea of normal physical labor and validation of certain results can take too much hold. To ask to copy reality as it is seen is a normal question and can you do it. Something equals good. People measure art and the artist via how much what is being made is exactly a replica of what we see and know. For many that is valuable as art, familiarity, knowing, recognizing, seeing, understanding and that it is also difficult. Artistry is also on which pedestal the person is and is a matter of climbing there, visibility, media coverage, being noticed, written about and acknowledged by those who know. Is this a spot for manipulation? Fine art is a highly specific specified field where expertise is required and those who think they don’t know enough are scared they make fools of themselves, which scare exists there among all. Maybe that is why scene is so stiff, very difficult to approach, reluctant to change eventhough it is talking about it and difficult to get in to as it is made of people who measure art and people. Interestingly positions of power are held on to a long time which does not help, conventions and hierarchies rule. Position gained is not given away that easily. Position of power in art is an interesting topic for the reason that the field is so specific, isolated and demands a lot of knowledge to know and be an expert of. Those who have power are trusted and valued. How power is used then? It does not look all that good in terms of making speedy progress.

There are those who decide for borders, walls, expectations to be filled and labels to be put on a person, reputations and careers to be had and probably the crowd is too small and tight. Celebration and party is a closed area. Artist is a kind of grand title and an honorary one as such, although honor is a strange concept in this regard, in terms of art. Is it honourable to be an artist and what does it mean? To practise what you preach? Make wonderful objects, eye candy for buyers? Double standards and looking good are a matter of keeping the impeccable image and what is art for other than image/habitus purposes, usually it is an accepted thought art is good for our spirit and health in general. When we look good we are happy and content? The grandiose and size enclosed there is part of the myth of an artist which oftentimes and more and more is a burden for art, artists, for the whole system and that it is male. To be an artist is a loaded profession, a fairytale and a fable, which one must over and over again debunk, break and disturb. Packed with stereotypes and clichés that circle in people’s minds, artist is sacred idolized archetype, this used up poster has troubled me and caused frustration, when does it ever change. How does an artist look like, how is artist portrayed, where art is when it is art, how approachable it all is and what is fear of art, how weird the artist is, how sick. Problems there are ideological and stuck always involving status, gender, class, money, quality of art, form of art, origin, places of show, networking, ways of interacting and talking etc. It is a whole bunch issues and beliefs that are and will be problematic, hard to overcome, accept or understand why they hold on so tightly. What is the turning point? One definitely is that art schooling remains available for those who do not come from money and that it is not a shameful thing to be working class.

Woman is a cunt, she is pussy. This is all too ugly to many.

2 marraskuun, 201716 lokakuun, 2019 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Happiness is relative

10 lokakuun, 201716 lokakuun, 2019 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Travelling man

5 lokakuun, 201716 lokakuun, 2019 | Henna Timanttimetsä

What are the purposes of travel nowadays? It is little pain to get the most pleasurable experience. It is interesting how much we move ourselves from one place to another and what does this action, method and motion mean, stand for us other than feeling alive. How compulsory it is as we compare ourselves to others and what they do. We must match up the achievements of others and travel is an achievement. Other people inspire us to go, our frustration and finding life force us. For us to feel alive, be achieving members of the modern society and powerful today is to be able to move freely, feel the importance of you. To go around signifies living and of course we must have a place to go back to, also something to document the trip. The documentation is important for remembering and going back to the moment of freedom and enjoyment. How we were there, how we looked and what we found. Travel is the purpose of living and be alive in a moment, it is in the movement and in the new. It may be the purpose of you, how you present yourself and see what you must do in your life to be what you want you to be. Movement stands for adventure, going to to some extent the unknown, if you are up for it you can. It is also about conquering yourself, going against something that is hindering you, restraining you from expressing yourself, living and doing what you want to do and be. How you travel tells who you are. This is how we live and travel is a big part of the modern. It is now at reach for all to do and it is freeing as there is the initiative of your own no matter how ready-made the trip is. The ready-made is the modern and for all to enjoy the same good experience is to share it. How much the trip looks like you, becomes part of you and you feel the movement is liberating you and when you come back home something may have changed for the better in your life. You went and survived, lived and learned something. The learning is in front of our idea of travelling and why we go. To think what happens when you walk may sound too simple a task. We don’t have to think our walking, it happens easily when nothing is stopping us.

How to see and understand the idea and purpose of adventure and exploration of ours today and what it is for other than leaving routines and something exhausting behind. Adventure is going to the unknown and appreciation of existing when anything can happen to you. To see excitement in a routine done daily may be difficult, to think routines over in a new way could be an interesting start, to do and think in a new way. Not to see the routine as compulsory but as a method of existing and choosing how you exist. Is this how we want to exist? An adventure, things that go unnoticed, happen suddenly and change everything completely, sound like a disaster. Routine and habit of travelling is to think how to be adventurous in the every day, to think that the goal of adventure is overrated and an immature fantasy, may put us back to ground. Moving from a to b and b to a, is matter of thinking about how you do it, why you do it, how you feel when you do it, what happens when you do it, what kind of things you notice during. Changing tiny habits changes your brain, for example take another route. What is it like to move the average way daily? Is it the accepted orthodox way, fast or slow, what is the purpose of time spent for making the trip, what is the purpose of time in travelling altogether. Effort makes travelling spiritual. The way most people do is to choose the safest, easiest and fastest method. Is it possible to change that pattern of thinking how we travel and what is the travelling? To go far is our most preferable goal. It is exploration in an era of high speed. To be an explorer and think it is authentic, individual and a personal choice.

2001

5 lokakuun, 201714 helmikuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Type-A-ness.

3 lokakuun, 2017 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Travelling man 2001, Grand Canyon

Drawing pedophiles

26 syyskuun, 20179 toukokuun, 2022 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Is there something that has to be explained? Yes, my point of view probably. My work is not a defence, it is exploring what there is, what is hidden, what is shown and why. There are differences around the globe how for example criminals are portrayed in media, the accused and convicted ones, which has been an interest of mine and involves culture in general, which issue resonates with portraiture and the visual culture we receive and look at. Am I taking a stand and what kind or am I doing research? Yes. I am trying to understand how we measure, comprehend human value and make judgment, point a finger and what do we make of it. What does artist represent and mean when she dives into the very problematic of our morals and the evil men and women do? What do we mean with inhumane as we think humane is something absolutely good? Why inhumane is below us and something else than us? To me it is not outside of us, we just like to think it is.

What is the absolute evil we loath, how is it seen or not seen, is what interests me, the ugly and beautiful we define. We see it in those others, how about in ourselves? We have a very strict filter or denial of what we are. What do we make of all that seen imagery and how do we choose our stand can be a no-brainer. It is to condemn and stay as far as possible from evil, lock it away in isolation, still it has to be understood, faced and talked about as it is not far from anyone ever. How the bad and evil get caricatures and stereotypes which repeat in our minds is how we make the difference and make rejection. We see something and we think immediately something of the seen. We analyse our relationship to it. An absolutely evil person is someone who hurts those who cannot defend themselves and keeps on hurting knowing that there is little or no struggle against. Sound familiar? The pedophile issue is a constant one as is the issue of evil, abuse, creating the evil, learning about it and our ways of dealing with it. How am I good and that other person bad and why. Issue of evil happening against children is painful and real. Those involved in abuse are the lowest of the low as those who have more power take advantage of those who have less power whose hurt brings pleasure to someone. Sexual abuse is different from any other kind of abuse. We have our ways of seeing abuse that is either very punishing or looking the other way. Sexual abuse is a corrupted idea of sex, of power and relationship and destructive to anyone who is hurt. There is a victim whose hurt is the shame and pain of what has happened. When child is seen as a pleasure toy for an adult, child is violated and humiliated in the most cruel way. What is the happening there and what is the enormous violation there is who is a proper sex partner. To know what kind of desires we can have and realise, what is sex for and why it dominates our behaviour, why are we sexual to the extent of hurt, when does and should sex become an issue for children and what kind of issue is it for adults, are questions for all to go through. It is always an issue for children and we live in a sexist world where being sexual means something, but what does it mean. Children think of sex which does not mean they are ready for having sex and they misunderstand and imagine, as do adults. What is the violation there when a girl starts her sex life out of her own initiative at the age of 11? Can she have an initiative of her own? Sex is violence is probably the best way to understand what happens in sexual act. Something that is supposed to be good is hurtful. Sex is not a mere act of pleasure. From the beginning when children are targets they are targeted as are all. It is the very assumption of what humans are basically about, are seen through and want.

One has to be careful how one approaches the topic of children. There are numerous scandals in fine art where children have been shown openly as sexual beings. They are sexual when they are naked. Taking roles of adults happens to many children in real life all the time. Children taking care of minors when they are minors themselves, being made into killing machines and factory workers who have small fingers and are cheap labor, children who are sold into prostitution have not chosen to be prostitutes. Yes we are all horrified. The most horrifying thing is sexual abuse, naked body of a child and looking at it, when it is on display. What we must do is to know who is the abuser. Amount of hurt and to whom is a big issue, for example within catholic church hypocrisy comes along which is not news anywhere. When revealed pious people who were supposed to protect, guide and teach feel the shame. Pedophilia is the worst kind of crime and we want to protect children. I do hope so.

How protecting happens, do we reject the whole issue or face it? Responsibilities of adults do seem to be lost for adults themselves far too often. What does judging the artist tell?