About the Exhibition
“The blue colour unites the worlds of paper and ceramics in my sculpture. Elements of nature, people, animals and plants appear in my work…
The technique of my works on paper is a wild cyanotype – I have been at the mercy of nature while working outside – I did not measure time – I just judged, the sun was my illuminator, the wind tested my boundaries as it stroked the papers, and the films and plants that acted as negatives, and those clouds in front of the sun – just at the wrong time as it danced in it. The vibrancy of my images comes precisely from the movement and unpredictability of nature – the sun shining low and moving fast in autumn, the plants swaying and bending as the wind sometimes catches something. The blue worlds include figures I have sculpted, places I have depicted by the water, woods, children and animals, with bones, hair, twigs, sticks, insects and plants.
In my sculptures I use all kinds of natural materials and ready-made old objects, linking together layers of time a brush that grew with a pony and skates that are at least a hundred years old – both experienced and involved in many things, in my way I create my own personal history for the sculptures, they are all of the same family or tribe – recognizable from each other, but always unique.
In my stories of the dark landscapes – travelling somewhere, hopping upwards, or hovering downwards under the weight of a butterfly, in a bony wave there is a boy in a flower boat on a raft, a sheep on a raft. In my sculpture Skater, the mood is expectant, skates ready to glide along the night ice of the river. Night Skater, on the other hand, is seen returning from a dance in the early hours of the morning, diamond around his neck and dress fluttering.
The birthplace of my work is a fantasy world, a special reality where metamorphoses are experienced in the midst of everything, seasons blend together, place and time blur – there anything is possible – I carry with me a kind of quiet melancholy, so I’ve heard it said…”
– Mia Hamari
