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I like ideas of Expandism, and I like the look of the "side-products," too. I'm impressed and inspired. Thanks for sharing.

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Website: http://www.atelierhannula.fi

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking

I am...: visual artist and printmaker. Collages, etchings and drawings.

About my artwork: Paper and acrylics are the basic materials of my collages. I use a large variety of all kinds of papers ranging from old newspaper clips to fragments of my latests etchings.
Sometimes my collages are visual outcomes of profitable dialogue between me and the interested party, e.g. exhibition organizer, business enterprise, art collector or other individual person. This co-creative way of art making I have named partnerism.

In my works I try to arrange the chaos surrounding us in a bit better order. Searching for an absolute balance attracts me and this task of composing harmonious visual music is neverending.

I have also developed the idea of expandism in which art is approached as a mental exercise and I do etchings in very traditional way. These are more like meditation or poetry told richly by line. In a way my etchings are marks of honour for draftmanship. Normally I draw whole plate by using only one simple needle from start to finish

Interests: Art as a mental exercise
http://expandism.blogspot.com/

Expandism is an art trend in which art is approached as a mental exercise. In Expandism, a free-form work of art is constructed little by little through details, it gradually expands and becomes complete.

Conventional art-making starts from the idea, from sketching and working with form, mass and large surfaces. In the beginning one gropes, but the work will gradually progress and became more precise, until at the end, attention is given to the most important details.

Expandism rejects this sequence and approaches art making from the opposite direction. The focus is on details and the aim is a careful concentration on those details, which will transform the making of art into a meditative and relaxing mental exercise.

As one works the number of details grows and the artist begins to draw attention to the whole. Shape, form, composition and possible ideas are revealed little by little towards the end of the process. But this does not always happen, nor is the "quality" of the outcome always directly related to a successful meditation. In Expandism the primary goal is a rewarding creative moment and the good feeling that follows. The work of art is just a side-product of this process.

Expandism is a mental exercise, focusing on details, working with concentration, seeking for unhurried moments in the middle of everyday life, pursuing flow-experience, meditating, contemplating, making a creative journey, revealing the art work, searching for hidden form and adventure where the end result is not known in advance.

Centre of the artworld:: my studio, nowhere and everywhere

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At 12:40am on November 23, 2011, STUDENTSzine.com said…: Hello, studentsZINE Publication for Contemporary Art would like to invite you to join us at the studentsZINE Platform www.studentszine.com - Here you can view the latest award and prize opportunities, enter the art library, read the submission guidelines and of course download the publication all for FREE, Hope to see you there :)

At 5:15pm on October 22, 2011, Marty McCutcheon said…: I like ideas of Expandism, and I like the look of the "side-products," too. I'm impressed and inspired. Thanks for sharing.