When I spoke to my lecturer Tim about my new idea for the Illuminate project, he introduced me to the work of Niina Vatanen. She is a visual artist based in Helsinki and her work is focused on different aspects of seeing and perception. Vatanen also works with archive material, which I find extremely fascinating.
She takes old photographs and works with them on a new creative basis. I am especially fascinated by her series of work “Composition Studies” in which she digitally alters archive images with colourful lines. They all find their responding line somewhere in the photograph.
Vatanen, N. (2014) Composition Studies II (Lines). Available at: https://www.artslant.com/ny/artists/show/314373-niina-vatanen (Accessed: 17 November 2019).
I simply love this interplay of perception between the visible and the non-visible, between the surface and the underlying theme. Vatanen seems to examine the potential of hidden images and discover meanings and patterns that are not even present.
header photo: Vatanen, N. (2014) Composition Studies (Lines). Available at: https://www.niinavatanen.com/uploads/2018/05/02/Composition-Studies-%28Lines%29.jpg (Accessed: 17 November 2019).
Documentation of MEDI512 "Experiment" 
