Blues

Inspired by the bright northern sun which never leaves the skies from April to September. White nordic days and nights are magical. They bring peace, new ideas, but most importantly new hopes for the future as bright as it can be.

Helsinki, Finland

2022

Dance

“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.” - Alan Watts 

With dance, dancing itself is the goal, there's no final point or destination. This is how life is. Otherwise, everyone would want to arrive at our final life destination as soon as possible. We can definitely arrive somewhere while dancing, as we're constantly moving with the dance, but arriving is not the point. It's the process of the dance itself that we enjoy while doing it. 

Vienna, Austria

2021

Secret Garden

She felt strangely more tranquil than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. The sunshine made the whole place look different. The high, deep, blue sky arched over her, and she kept lifting her face and looking up into it, trying to imagine what it would be like to lie down on one of the little snow-white clouds and float about. It was her very own secret and sacred place. Only for her, no one else.

Barcelona, Spain

2022

Objects of Vision

We are used to the fact that what we see is what we know. Seeing is believing. However there are myriads of things and phenomena which we don’t see, yet they are real. At the same time, our brains can be tricked into seeing something that is not actually there. Each moment in life we’re switching between real and unreal, seen and unseen. This project is inspired by this constant process.

Vienna, Austria

2021

Residents

Living so close to others with only thin concrete walls separating us from our neighbors it looks like we have become even more isolated. People can hear a person next door snoring, yet, not even know her name. Yet, even though we might not be conscious of it, living with others brings a certain sense of comfort and community to our lives. What if the whole huge multistory building was all yours? What kind of games would you play there? Would you feel happy or sad? This project is a fantasy where I try to imagine visual answers to those questions.

Helsinki, Finland

2022

Individual Works & Projects

In Process - 2022

- miscellaneous works from future projects -.

Artworks are available in sizes:
COMING

2022

Fire & Water

It was a big decision for me to take portraits of my parents in the first place. Not because “I had to” or they expected me to, but because I wanted to do it, I REALLY felt like it. It suddenly occurred to me that this is how I viewed them (or better sensed, because I wasn’t consciously thinking about them this way ever) t.

Mom has always been full of energy, both productive and distractive. The fast and the furious. She was the “fire” in my life: she could keep me warm, but she could really burn me at times. Saying it in the past tense, because I describe my childhood perspective of things, and frankly, my childhood, the psychological one, lasted for too long. Only now do I feel like finally have grown up and have become disconnected from all the past emotions, traumas, fears, expectations, and hopes that little Dasha had.

My mom is the hero of my life and I really want to state that with this portrait. She’s strong, powerful, fearless. She endured and still does much pain in her life, but that didn’t and doesn’t brake her. She gave me the fuel and the courage to do many things in life, both genetically and by her own example, and for that I’m endlessly grateful.

I really feel that the color and the vertical lines in the background reflect the strength, assertiveness, and energy that I have always seen in her.

My dad has always been a quintessence of calm and emotional control. I never, and I mean NEVER even once, saw him getting angry or bitter about anything in life. He always seemed steady and stable, and even boring and lacking change, and cold sometimes. He could stop any fire and heal any burn with his relaxed coolness.

I didn’t appreciate it much, when growing up, but later in life the stillness that he transferred to me paid off immensely. I wouldn’t be who I am today if I never took a more grounded, cold, calm, and controlled view of life situations I’ve faced. I am hugely grateful to have inherited this part from my father.

I tried to convey the cool and calm stillness of my father’s soul through the horizontal lines, absence of details, and the color palette, which is comprised of various shades of blue and grey.

I almost cried when editing the works. Finally accepting my parents as people, not as gods that they have always seemed to me when I was a child. I didn’t want to make them prettier, I didn’t want to retouch too much. The portraits are about acceptance. They are being themselves and I am accepting them as they are. And accepting myself through this process.

2022

Wandering

All of us need wandering time, time to just ramble without a definite purpose or objective. The time when you detach and disconnect, and sort of feel like a separate molecule just dwelling between substances, not sure a part of which you want to become. The wandering times lead to wonderful shifts in our perceptions and often mindsets and ways of living. But it's so scary to just wander away from what is so comfortable and familiar into the unknown. And even scarier to just do nothing. Just wander.

Matsesta, Russia - Helsinki, Finland

2021-2022

Spreading Wings

What if you take a new approach to flying and turn the idea of "being grounded" upside-down? Yes, some things in life are impossible, right until they become... possible! Challenging your own beliefs, and rules you've set for yourself even once in a while, and just for the fun of it may have amazing power. It helps you not to take yourself and life around you too seriously. Because what is the world around us rather than the Universe just entertaining itself?

Helsinki, Finland

2021-2022

Way of a Cloud

From my early childhood, I considered clouds to be my friends. They were always there when I needed them. They bought comfort and shade on a hot sunny day, they took shapes of different animals and wonderful creatures, when I was bored or sad, they were white and grey when I needed rest and colorful and bright in the lights of dawn or sunset when I longed for adventures. They were always changing, but they were always there. Inspired by my childhood memories this series is dedicated to my cloud friends and all the wonderful moments we had together.

Zurich, Switzerland

2021-2022

Tunnel Vision

A thought of a tunnel may evoke two opposite emotions simultaneously. It’s scary, because you’re about to enter the darkness, but it brings hope for a better future with the light in the end. For centuries tunnels have represented journeys, yet sometimes they symbolize the passage from one phase of life to another. Rebirth in a new form, either physically or mentally, and the journey of metamorphosis is usually very painful.

This project is dedicated to dealing with change in the outside world and making peace with it on the inside. Every tunnel has the other side, often bursting with light and hope. It is the contrast of the tunnel’s darkness that gives light its power and resonance.

Zurich, Switzerland

2021-2022

Hopeless

Hope is what we believe to be greater than ourselves. Without it, we believe we are nothing. All meaning, everything we understand about ourselves and the world, is constructed for the purpose of maintaining hope. Therefore hope is an inherently crucial component of a healthy psyche. Yet, while hope is the solution to our personal problems, it is also often the cause of our social problems. Visions of hope, when pursued far enough, have destructive consequences. They also make us suffer, if we don’t get what we hoped for.

Perhaps, doing something not hoping for any good outcome is the most courageous thing we could do. There are no guarantees, yet we do it anyway. Then, if we get a positive outcome it’s a pleasant bonus.

Helsinki, Finland

2018-2022

Imaginary Seascapes

Everything that you see and hear around you is your brain's reconstructed model of the world. This is not how the reality actually is. It's how you perceive it. If so, why not play with those perceptions and imagine a whole new reality? Plain, simple, calm, and clean. It can be our new home where we have space for unexpected thoughts and novel ideas, a space where we can rest and reevaluate our positions, where we can learn ourselves better so that we can go on our life quest and be more prepared for what's coming next.

2022

Change

No one has all the answers. Even if it seems so, sometimes. It’s the uncomfortable truth. So we’re bound to make up our minds and then change them over and over again. Does change have to always be painful? Can we approach it as play? It’s up to us to decide. And then change our mind again.

Zurich, Switzerland

2022

Looking For Solution

There is no one best way to do anything. There are many great ways, as many as there are people, views, and perspectives. Finding a single "right" point of view is impossible. If you think you're right all the time, it's a delusion. That's why when we look for solutions and learn, we become a little "less wrong" with every step.

Vienna, Austria

2021-2022

Uncertainty

Uncertainty has always been feared and disapproved of. Yet, people who are uncertain in their beliefs tend to be more tolerant and broad-minded. They change their minds about the world around them more easily and eagerly, constantly upgrading their perspectives. Those upgrades usually don’t come instantly, but in a series of little events, thoughts, epiphanies, and life situations. The project speculates on such instances presenting them in a metaphorical way. The more uncertain people are the more open they are to learning. I hope there’s more uncertainty in the world.

Vienna, Austria

2021-2022

Same But Different

We all want a certain amount of surprise in our lives, otherwise living would be boring.

But too much change and uncertainty are overwhelming and painful. This is why all the major breakthroughs in human history and development were not welcomed by the masses.

We all want that our life experiences are the same and safe, but different and challenging/entertaining at the same time.

Trying to play with the notion that you can’t enter the same river twice and imagining like one and the same, the very familiar and plain image of a horizon line above the sea can be viewed from multiple different angles.

Sochi, Russia

2021-2022

Resistance

“The more important a call or action to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.” - Steven Pressfield “The War of Art”

Newton’s 3rd law of physics says: “To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction”. Often we feel this very concrete law of physics in our psychological struggles. Every attempt to grow, to do something new, to learn, and to develop will inevitably face some kind of reaction. Something be it our environment, family, circumstances, but most often our own beliefs and self-talk don’t allow us to make our next steps and attempts to block the growth.

This force, this resistance can come in any shape or form: indecision, negative self-talk, procrastination, conflicts, fear, doubt, self-sabotage, shame, guilt. This project attempts to show in a metaphorical way all those types of things that can block our creativity and growth. My hope is that every person, facing the resistance of some kind realizes that, in the end, the resistance it’s not real and can be blown away like a piece of paper when you know exactly why you need the growth and why you want to create.

2019-2021 (in progress)

Unmute and go Deep

Unmute and live your life to the fullest. See what’s possible. Explore the variations and embrace what’s possible. And accept that everything is possible. Find what resonates with you and dive deep into that.

The ultimate joy of color and exploration of it hypnotizing combinations. Their depth, intensity, and power.

Sochi, Russia

2021

Princess & the Pea

“Princess and the pea” is a “textbook” fairytale and like every fairy-tale, it doesn’t make much sense and yet has lots of hidden meanings if you search for them. This series includes visual speculations and expansions on those possible meanings and morals. The danger of making assumptions, a big role that small things can play in life, being true to oneself, and never jumping to conclusions might be the important lessons found in the simple text for children if you’re willing to take in its wisdom.

Helsinki, Finland

2021

Nature

Whatever we usually refer to as “human nature”: the uncontrolled emotions, irrational actions, lack of thinking, is usually the reflection of the animal origin in our brains. We are tiny cells in the giant organism of the Universe. We’re connected to everything around us and to each other. Then why do we often feel so unique, different and isolated? The project is speculation on this controversy.

Helsinki, Finland

2021-2022

Subtraction

Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add because that benefits them. What if we focus on subtracting instead? First, I subtract everything that I can, and then I add only the most essential elements. The ones that I choose myself and that I feel will add the real value. I unlearn the old things and now my mind has space for the new knowledge. Ultimately there’s an infinity of possibilities in limitations. But you need to learn to subtract and make that space first in progress.

Sochi, Russia

2021

Fairies

Strength, honesty, calmness, all of those qualities can be seen as magical powers of supernatural creatures sometimes. This is my take on how the magical beings empowered with those qualities might look when seen in a world almost identical to ours. Those are fairies and their images are inspired by my innate fascination with illustrations in children’s books and the works of artists like Nicoletta Ceccoli and Ray Caesar. Why the big eyes? Every child knows that the eyes are the most important part of a human face when you draw it.

Helsinki, Finland

2017-2021

The Dark Days of the Soul

"The Dark Days of the Soul" is inspired by the darkness of Finnish winter and the limited ability to physically change places due to the situation in the world. In times like that new opportunities to travel arise. It’s a different kind of travel though, it’s a journey within.

Each work covers a particular state of mind that I translate into a visual form. Some of them are truly dark, some are bright, but this is how the duality of life works: we wouldn’t be able to see light without the darkness.

Helsinki, Finland

2020-2021

Synesthetic Letters

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In grapheme-color synesthesia, individual letters of the alphabet and numbers are associated with specific colors and sometimes colorful patterns. While different individuals usually do not report the same colors for all letters and numbers, studies with large numbers of synesthetes find some commonalities across letters (e.g. A is likely to be red). A number of artists, writers, and scientists had synesthesia, among them Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinski, Vladimir Nabokov, Nicola Tesla, etc. Some synesthetes are reported to have learned how to apply their ability in daily life and work, for example, have used their abilities in memorization of names and telephone numbers, mental arithmetic, and more complex creative activities like producing visual art, music, and theater. 

 This project attempts to show how we, two synesthetes, Dasha Pears and Jane Kristoferson, view the world and see letters in colors, sometimes attributing additional concepts to them.

St. Petersburg, Russia

2018-2021

Paper Lords

The situation the whole world was in forced us to look at many things from a new perspective. The experience was painful but valuable. But you can only get a gain from your pain if you pause and take time to reflect on your actions, feelings, and thoughts. This project is a tribute to the lockdown wisdom, that each of us faced in a unique way.

 We tried to imagine what the kids would do if they were locked down on their own in a situation similar to a pandemic version of "the Lord of the Flies" story. No parents, no rules, but not too much freedom either. So in our narrative, the kids make themselves the kings and queens of their lockdown home kingdom using paper and toys to create their symbols of power. Those symbols are fragile, they don't last long and are easily broken. But isn't it true for anything in life? Any habits, ways, things we get so much used to can disappear in a second. 

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Dripping Realities

No Project

As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures, tastes — are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Yet, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like, a kind of internal simulation of an external reality. Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now? The true reality might be forever beyond our reach, however.

Is space and time in which we think we operate just our VR headset, an interface that we can reverse engineer? What would it feel like to see reality as it is truly is? So far, it seems unimaginable, but at least we can imagine this “reality headset” melting and dripping away.

Inspired by the work of Donald Hoffman, an American cognitive psychologist, Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and popular science author. 

The project emerged from my work on another series, called "Plastic Souls", so the characters look similar.

Helsinki, Finland

2020

ONN

"Old" is the new "New"

Fashion industry will never be the same. The pandemic radically changed everything: the way people shop, behave and think. Global brands stare into the abyss of the impending recession, many of them (such as Gucci, Armani, etc.) declare a new approach to creating collections, producing their goods and even announce entire fresh brand philosophies, focused on sustainability, ecology-conscious production, moderation, recycling and reuse of old materials and items. That’s crucial not only for the survival of businesses with decades-long histories, but also to serve the changing demands of the general public and fashion addicts.

What will the revitalized fashion industry look like? This project is our speculation on the possible options based on the Finnish fashion culture traditions, deep-rooted in love to mother-nature and huge respect for giving new lives to old items.

With this project we are telling 8 stories of contemporary Finnish-fashion addicts. It's sort of a guide of today's Finnish fashion scene. We spent months observing how Finns dress, shop and recycle their clothes. We talked to influential people in the local fashion industry and researched how the sustainable values are flourishing in the production process of garments.

Each story has its own unique flavor and represents a particular subculture, but all of them are connected by similar views and values. The stories are our fantasies and interpretations of how certain elements of fashion scene in Finland look like and how they shape the society.

With these project we want to express hope that in every disruptive event there's always a silver lining. Often less turns out to be more and in order to create something new, you don't have to throw away the old stuff, but find new unexpected ways to make it shine.

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Connect

Millions of people side by side on metros, in supermarkets, on the streets – we have never before been so physically close to each other in history. Yet it all feels a bit strange. Like our minds cannot get as close to each other as we would want them to. Like there’s nobody that really knows us.

As living creatures, we are wired for empathy and connection. Our ancestors lived in tribes and depended on each other for survival. Now, in our highly individualistic modern societies, everyone's for themselves. This affects our ability to connect. There’s so much more to relationships – deep down we can feel it. But somehow we’re lacking the words that could penetrate our shells. This collection of photographs captures the difficulties of connecting in a modern world that is characterized by physical proximity and emotional distance.

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Play

The best ideas come to you when you don’t try hard to get them. The best ideas are a result of simple play. With no pressure or responsibility. Wild and free. And limitless. Children know that, but as we grow up, we forget.

Our society tends to dismiss play for adults. Play is perceived as unproductive, petty, or even a guilty pleasure. The notion is that once we reach adulthood, it’s time to get serious.  Yet, if we want to live our lives fully, play is like oxygen. This project was my personal reminder to myself that play is should always remain a crucial part of my life.

Wanna play? ;)

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Eyes Wide

In solitude we are able to recover our energies, and start being ourselves again. But we are also social beings – who doesn’t like a good laugh with the loved ones?

The pandemic has changed the way we relate to other people –  it forced us to become more distant. But it has also made it clear that we want to stay connected. 

And when we’re free to connect, it’s difficult to know where to start. We want to get out there and finally let loose, but it feels a bit vulnerable. The words might not come out the same way. It may be scary to touch. It is like learning to talk or walk all over again.

Eyes Wide was shot right after the lifting of the lockdown. It captures the mixed emotions of someone who is trying to open up to the world and crawl back into their shell at the same time.

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Orange Blues

Coming soon

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Time is the Issue

Time has always been my obsession. The lack of it. The overwhelming abundance of it.

When I was young there was too much time and I didn’t know what to do with it. That was frightening. Hours and hours of time and no ideas on how to enjoy them.

Then abundance turned into a constant lack and deprivation. I can’t spend too much time on this, I’ll be late for that. I need it fast. I don’t want to waste time. ASAP! No time to think. No time to stop and see where I’m going.

So the time started to stop itself making me travel with it with the speed of light. My obsession went full circle. I learned to bend time. But only occasionally. When I finally get inside of a moment and stay there. Stay in the moment. Not chasing it. Just being there.

The project started with me wanting to show ways of wasting time. Then turned into self-reflection on my own relationship with it.

Helsinki, Finland

2019 - 2020

Plastic Souls

There’s a fashion in everything. Even in ideas being spread. We can catch some like viruses and be absolutely sure that we now found the truth and discovered our way in this world. We cling to the illusion that now we have it under control.

The project is exploring how beautiful ideas like human connection, self-love, visualization of dreams to make them come true, positive thinking, caring for the planet, and finding peace often get twisted in the minds of those who catch them like a virus without going too deep into understanding what’s really behind. The project is an attempt to speculate what happens when an idea is downgraded to a fashionable trend and becomes just another trait of the mass culture.

The name of the project was inspired by David Bowie’s album name “Plastic Soul”.

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Stuck with You

The project is a speculation on how close siblings affect each other's lives, when growing up and was born from my observation of the interactions of my daughters. Their lives intertwine in an unpredictable way, both shape the other’s opinions, moods, perceptions. Even though the relationship has its ups and downs, it doesn’t lose its tightness, which brings me to the conclusion that brothers and sisters and not parents are the closest people to you, because they share your life situations in many ways.

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Yellow Drops

Collection

Coming soon

Helsinki, Finland

2020

Life of Folds

Origami is the art of turning a plain sheet of paper into practically any shape. The transformation of a piece of paper into virtually anything made me think of how we as humans tend to turn plain facts and life situations into positive or negative ones when we react to them emotionally. 

In this series, origamis represent emotions that can sometimes be overwhelming, drive you in some direction, make you act a certain way. You can’t fight them. If you try, you will fail. So many of us have unresolved emotions from our childhood that drag us down and turn into miserable human beings. You can only be at peace with yourself when you acknowledge these emotions, observe them, let them be, and pass through you.

Helsinki, Finland

2017 - 2020

Factory

Big city life has its advantages: you don’t have to think much. Many things have been already decided and designed for you. Your routines, schedule, ways and means of communicating with peers, even your lunch time! Now, can you still be yourself while being on a factory treadmill? This is up to you, of course. This project is a playful look at how office life can be organized. No statements, only playful suggestions and pure irony.

2019

Circus of Objects

Are you a juggler, clown or perhaps a trapeze artist? All people play multiple roles in life. Those roles seem to be very important and we do our best to play them right. We juggle and balance between being a great professional, partner, parent, friend, trying to solve problems, predict the future and be on time everywhere. Often we get overwhelmed by trying to be the best at everything and feeling guilty for not achieving it everywhere. We get lost in worries and lose connection with the essential things in life. However, sometimes the solution is simple and it only takes a change of perspective. How often have you looked back at some difficult situation in your life and realized that it wasn’t worth all the worry? From a bigger perspective, all those mind-built problems are nothing but a bunch of tiny pins thrown on a table.

The project attempts to remind viewers that we are all performers in the circus of our own life. On another level, it shows that our brain builds meanings and perspectives can change easily. Ordinary everyday objects can become meaningful when placed next to another image. Are the popcorn boxes just boxes or do they become two boys? How do you see the pins after seeing the photo of the joggler or vice versa? The magic happens not only in the circus but in our minds. Every single day.

Helsinki, Finland

2019

Target

There are a million ways to look at something. And sometimes – the overthinkers that we might be – we can get stuck on one negative view of ourselves. This negative view most often derives from critical voices, which we have internalized.

Truth is, no one can decide who we are. If we distance ourselves from these negative voices, the space for a new perspective emerges. A perspective that allows us to look in the mirror with a fresh outlook, and which allows us to get to know ourselves again. This project captures the shifts in perspective, which reveal new aspects of our being.

Barcelona, Spain

2019

Obsession

Our vivid imagination can be a tool for creating beautiful worlds, but it can also take us down the rabbit hole. We get stuck. We circle around an idea until it starts eating away at our emotions.

It’s a silly thing to depend on – a thought. It may not even be rooted in reality. To be stuck in one’s head is like a hamster wheel. We feel free once we step outside of it. But sometimes, it’s just hard to let go.

These photographs visualize obsession and the human body that slides down the rabbit hole.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2019

Paint

We're a reflection of the environment we were developing in. Often the environment breaks us and changes our perception of the world to a negative one. However, we have the same ability to influence everything that surrounds us. The point is to reconnect with ourselves and to claim our power to change the world into a better place.

Helsinki, Finland

2019

Horns

Being different is a tricky thing to maneuver. But why hide our horns? They make us who we are, and show us the way. Uniqueness becomes a blessing the moment we accept it.

The unicorn life is full of fun – full of deeply felt feelings, crocodile tears, and hearty laughs. It’s a life that is worth embracing.

There are others like us, and our paths will cross – that is something we can always be sure of. This project exhibits the heartfelt moments of the unicorn life.

Helsinki, Finland

2019

Heights & Stairs

We have something to say, something to show that we know is meaningful. But there’s no elevator to get up there. We have to take the stairs. With each step our view of the landscape is evolving.

It can sometimes feel like rolling a boulder up a hill. But it fills up our days with hope. The hope that what we have to say, and what we have to show will be heard.

It’s all part of the process, losing hope and regaining it, losing sight of the reason we do it all, only to see it appear with great clarity the next day. Height & Stairs explores notions of hope and meaning that drive us in our pursuit of fulfillment.

Paris, France

2019

Butterfly

Psychologists argue that a human being’s character and personality are largely the results of things that happened to him/her in the course of life. Some life situations leave a deep emotional impact on us, which stays with us for years and often goes into the subconscious. We take on an emotion, usually a negative one (fear, regret, anger), and carry it with us further, not even realizing that we have it. Yet, it does affect our behavior, perceptions, thoughts, views of the world, and even health. It’s never just one experience that influences us. It’s always the combination, the layers, which with time turn into so-called “emotional baggage” burdening us. At some point, this baggage can make us feel stuck completely when we feel depressed, enormously stressed, or deeply unhappy and not being able to understand why we think the way we think and why we do the way we do.

Psychologists say that if you have a memory that’s more than 18 months old and that causes an extreme emotional reaction in your mind, it means that this past event is holding you back from living your life fully. Often, getting back to those painful past events, digging them from your memory and experiencing them once again in your mind, accepting them, and transforming your initial emotional reaction to them is the only way to go on living. This project reflects the process of accumulating emotional baggage and getting rid of it in the end, becoming better and wiser. Cause there’s more to life than the past. Yet, a butterfly has to be a caterpillar first.

Helsinki, Finland

2019

Imagine Music

What makes you change your mood in seconds? Not so many things in life have this power, but music does. Music creates an atmosphere. It has the power to deepen or even transform our visual experiences. It speaks directly to our emotions and can change them in seconds.

Music is even more powerful when we observe its effect on the imagination. Music builds imagination and creativity. When we see pictures - our imagination does not get stronger, however, when we close our eyes and hear a sound, our imagination can go wild and create all sorts of things.

This project is an attempt to imagine music in visuals, a take on what is going on in a musician’s and listener’s minds and souls while a melody is played and heard. Each image is inspired by a particular music piece and reflects the photographer’s emotions while listening to it.

Helsinki, Finland

2019