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kATJA vARTIAInEn | FinlAnd
http://artist-katja-vartiainen.de

I worked last winter a lot with Photoshop. Detailed graphics, sharp moment. I don’t see the canvas as such, it’s just a glimpse in a bigger
edges, cleaning up my illustrations. This and a need for me to paint continuity of all visual. I want a colors that seem to transform into one
something else appeared. I got that classic feeling of repeating myself. another, as a smog, cloud, space, not limiting, just existing. This also
For sometime I’ve been pondering about borders. Personal borders, allows me to play with more shades and nuances. There is definately
healthy borders, the impossibility of actual borders. Everything is mostly a so called spiritual side in my new paintings. Existance is awareness.
made up of space, we too. The ideal border is to be so comfortable or Oneness. These paintings hilight that and are a means of trying to portay
having such a Star Trekkie world that its existence is never required, something which in the end doesn’t have any qualities. The need, being
and such, never thought about. I can’t paint a restricted surface at the to get as close as possible.

| QUA, 2005 oil on plywood 27x28 in. | 70x60 Cm.
| BonsAi, 2005 oil on CAnvAs 40x32 in. | 100x80 Cm.
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