In the Moment – Elina Hannula

As a visual artist, I feel like an eternal seeker “in the moment.” Everyday life and the small, familiar things wait to be noticed. In my work, I balance between uncertainty, courage, sensitivity, roughness, order, and disorder. There is something fascinating and human in being unfinished.

It’s an attempt to understand and clarify thoughts about myself and the surrounding world. A dialogue, the construction and deepening of the life cycle, where everything affects everything.

I don’t want to explain the starting points of my works precisely. There are many possibilities for interpretation. Questions and answers arise depending on the approach. In them, one can see landscapes, cities, the cycle of life, inner landscapes, and feelings of what I am experiencing and thinking at this moment. The images tell me something clear, which is also unclear, even secret. A lot of familiar things, and at the same time, something foreign. The perforated dot in my works clearly and concretely represents a small part of the larger whole, to which I too feel I belong.

In my graphic works, I usually combine various techniques and create unique prints. In the works currently on display, the starting point is the absolutely significant perforated dot, which forms a relief-like graphic “contact point” on the paper. Additionally, I often use threads and sewing as part of the artwork. The graphic quality “without” drawing interests me. My technique is pared-down and minimalist. Sitting with “drypoint in hand” and perforating is both very meditative and healing. Symbolically, the technique I have chosen contains numerous connections and meanings to my own “everyday” reality.

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