Satori

Genre and Media

Genre Female art, reflection and
identity.
Media Photography, graphic design,
animation, print and projection
installation
Why Satori?
is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening,
comprehension; understanding. In the Zen
Buddhist tradition,satorirefers to the
experience of kensh, seeing into one's true
nature.
Pure Joy

Ideas

Main project output

Interlinked photography, graphics and text series covering

the subjects of reflection and identity
A physical printed book
An animated eBook
A final projection installation that will allow the audience to
enter their own state of self reflection

Niina Vatanen

Niina Vatanens photographs resemble notes

from a personal diary. Not those notes
written to describe exact events, but those
written to describe certain feelings or
moods. Unlike a diary, however, her discreet
entries do not follow a specific timeline or
sequence. Inscribed by light, they become
traces of moments past, little stories that
trigger memories.
Niina Vatanen finds the narrative for her
subjects either in her own experiences and
observations or in novels and movies. The
images are little stages in which she
combines her different inspirations in order
to create possible events that happened in
time and in memory. The images are both
contained and open, each one telling its own
little story. Depending on arrangements or
sequencing, they may suggest a multitude
of different narratives.

Contextual

Niina Vatanens photographs tell a tale of

 Her photographs are like subconscious visions... Fractured,

open, associative, they trigger something in our minds that
immediately connects us to our own memories.
The artists images are anchored in a singular, specific
moments, but banal, everyday content of each of her
photographs allows this moment to become timeless and
universal.
My pictures are attempts to recognizing and shedding light on
the obscure and vague movements. I want to approach the
momentary quality of living through constancy. The paradox is
that when you try to conserve or protect a moment by
photographing it, you inevitably loose it at the same time.

Anni Leppl
Contextual

Rocio Montoya
The human body in synergy
with nature
The female figure
The loss of identity
Poetic graphic style
Visual poetry
Diary of visual memories

Contextual

Ulla Jokisalo
In all her works the artists
referenced are exclusively
feminine, in particular those
related to the process of
craftsmanship. Cutting,
sewing, and stitching are
elemental to her work;
gestures which she sees as
being directly connected to
women, to the mother, and
to the unconscious.

Style

Jose Romussi
My work is a constant search to express and represent my ideas. My
occurring artworks area reaction of my inspiration.
This starts with an image, that inspires me in certain way to do an
embroidery that changes it into a new one. I am always searching for
a new sense of interpretationfor my pieces. My technique for that is
using thread as the medium to merge differenttime spaces. I am not
afraid of breaking a picture, the important thing for me is using
embroidery, a technique not usually used on paper, to do it on a
photograph, because this is a part of the process.
I intervene images by applying my own perception of beauty to them.
Sometimesby givingthem a new identity or a different aesthetic
concept.Its the chance to give thisimage a new emotion, a new life,
a new interpretation of beauty through embroidering.
Embroidery physical manipulation instead of digital

Style

Pipilotti Rist

Learning Agreement
Description
I will be creating a printed book, animated ebook and installation piece. The printed book
and animated ebook will be a cohesive series of photography and graphics. It will be
on the subject of the female body and mind, exploring self reflection and identity. As
well as this I will create a final projection installation which will allow the audience to
fall into a state of self reflection.
My career goal is to be able to be flexible and resourceful for my employers by being
able to provide a variety of skills. Therefore my aim is to create a portfolio that
showcases the different skills I have.
This project will also give me an opportunity to explore my interests further. These
interests include photography, design and physical as well as digital crafting.
My project will be strongly secured with contextual studies, so in depth research and
documentation will also be core to my project.
Skills and Recourses
Designer
Producing
Lynda.com
Various book guides

Pre-production plan

30th Sep -15th

More contextual
Oct research to strengthen and
refine subject using photography, graphic
design books from the library, as well as online
magazines and ebooks
Record my personal findings
To strengthen my photography and animation
skills I will research using books and lynda.com
Practice and improve existing skills in
Photoshop, premiere and flash. Hope to explore
illustrator and Lightroom.
16th Oct 5th
Nov
Detailed sketches
of photographs and graphics
Create the basic book/ebook layout
Find models and plan shoot dates in studio for
main pieces
A full plan of installation

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