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tiiNA JÄÄSKELÄiNEN-ALASAARi

Lives and works in Lieto, Finland
http://tiinajaaskelainen.blogspot.com/

Tiina Jääskeläinen, born in 1962 and also known by her former surname Love, 1998) which she used during 1998-2002 as material for her series
Hattunen, is a visual artist and writer living in Lieto, Finland. Her works of lectures nationwide. She was frequently invited by the Finnish
are often based on images originating from music, which form through National Research and Development Center for welfare and Health
different processes and combine with emotions. Her totem animal, the to lecture to professionals who help victims of domestic violence.
giraffe, crept into her pictorial world already in the 1980s. The same She was one of the new promising writers in Reviiri 2000, a poetry
decade witnessed the emergency of chairs into her art, depicting and prose anthology published by the Regional Art Council of South-
the controversy between the human being and the norms of society. west Finland. Her short story “Night guests” was received with
Her own experiences processed into drawings and poems (Deadly praise. The following year her poem ”A Prayer” was published in the

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