Midlife crisis

Marilyn

Missing women, 2015-16, pencil on paper

River of no return

How many takes?
She was very sweet. She was a comedian. She was very shy. She was fuck me. She was very uncomfortable. She was convinced, she was not very sexy and pretty. She didn’t have an aura of sexiness about her. There was some magic about her, she would play at it. She would burlesque it. She seemed like a lost child. It seemed to her like Alice in Wonderland and she could not believe it. Anybody was very serious about her. She really felt she didn’t have the inner qualifications to fulfil the image of a sex goddess. She thought that the whole thing was a lie, because it was not her. She would never feel worthy. She was very very difficult. She was vulnerable. She was weak. She was teary. She was struggling. She was falling apart. She was hurt. She was an addict. She was needy. She was difficult. She was in pain. She was adorable. She was drunk. She was nice. She was childlike. She was late. She was lovely. She was hanging on. She was calling me. She was calling everybody. She was caring. She was unprofessional. She was sexy. She was beautiful. She was funny. She was doing the thing that was wanted of her, she was not doing what she wanted.

Not adopting any method to be faster but clearer. Not adjusting according to what is.

Arrested women, 2015-16, pencil on paper

drop something, pick it up
drop something, pick it up
drop something, pick it up

turn the lock, open the door
turn the lock, open the door
turn the lock, open the door

move the chair, sit on it
move the chair, sit on it
move the chair, sit on it

sit on a chair, straighten your back
sit on a chair, straighten your back
sit on a chair, straighten your back

do it backwards, open your mouth
do it backwards, think about your mouth
do it backwards, show me your tongue

Sounds of Africa

 

Sounds of Africa

You hear insects all the time everywhere. You are scared of insects. They are violent in their multitude. Their amount is unexpectable, unknown small horror that creeps. Their force is their poison and need to go under your skin. To eat you to consume you and move on to the next body.

Africa is scary. It is enormous and endless and dark. Endless in its blackness, noise, violence, liveliness and uniqueness but we like to see it as one block because we must understand within our rational frame all, even the things which don’t fit the frame in any way. We need to force all into our frame to comprehend and control and use. All that we can’t control, what can we do with it?

Ethnic sounds, drums, stomping, whipping, singing. Animal sounds: roaring. Human sounds: shooting. Nature’s sounds: the wind, eruptions, the grass, the rain.

Cacophony distilled normal, a harmony, a naming. Making order, giving advice, giving comprehension and guidance, harmony like for a choir with a conductor. Do not make a mistake. You will be punished. Who are the people who punish? Who are the people who are punished?

Coffee cantata, tsinasil signifies the sounds of whipping of Jesus. Wondrous voices made with instruments invented. Giselle is losing her mind. Think that sound.

Portraits of missing women

Small dog with a big heart

pencil on paper, 2015

December is

muna kädessä

Girls on net: in search of a porno monster.

Compilation of drawings made by me 2015-2017 from images online. What we find sexy, interesting pornographically and what is the damage there that porn represents for many? Porn is to enjoy decay, decadence and the forbidden darkness which is kind of criminal as it is explicit, exploitative and objectifying, ruining the viewer as it is addictive? What is ruining us are judgmental attitudes, denial and horrified views, not knowing and making sex a dirty business, something to be ashamed of.  I am interested in the female body in this process of presenting lust, expressing and exploring the scary there obviously is, the stereotypes, poses, categories, since all one has to do is name an art piece Menstruation and it raises eyebrows. One side to my interest lies in the open sexism there has been and still is in the arts, which has made me wonder what makes sex scandalous and sexism not.

Some torture