Saaraliisa Ylitalo

Practice 1

Paper collage. Mixed media artist (hsing handmade papers)

I have always said that my work was about my emotional "weather" between turbulent and calm times.  Between hope and despair.  Really about broken places and how I deal with them.
Now I feel the ocean is a better metaphor.  On its surface it can be stormy, choppy, undulating, or placid, but underneath it is mostly tranquil.  Whereas before the work was about the turbulent surface currently it is about the quiet calm of the ocean floor.  Expressing visually our shared human emotional experiences is what I have always striven to communicate.

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