sunnuntai, 7. syyskuuta 2008

Action painting with Rakel back in 1998

Back in the days me and Rakel were both deeply influenced by abstract expressionism. We did different kinds of experiments on the subject, and at some point we ended up doing a performance. This photo is from our first public performance. The work was titled "War of sexes" and it was done at Läsnä-rock, Pieksämäki year 1998.

For us it was a big thing to come out from the studio and face the live audience, a thing that painters seldom do. Although one can of course question if it is real action or not, but for us it definitely did represent it.

We were really young back then, not even in the artschool yet. I stopped all painting soon after I got into one, Rakel graduated as a painter, even thought most of her work has been something else.

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