Hi there! Last Sunday Seth Apter started an art exhibition and sale for his Creative Team. I created a triptych for it and will now show the pieces in individual posts. The sale still might be going on when this post gets published, so if you want to support the team and get something beautiful for yourself, please head over to Seth's store (link)! All of my pieces are already sold when writing this.
As triptych suggests, all of the three pieces make up a bigger unity. The pieces were inspired by a poem by a Finnish poet Edith Södergran. The poem is called "Det underliga havet", in Finnish "Ihmeellinen meri" - loosely translated "The strange sea".
Edith Södergran was a Swedish speaking Finn and wrote her poetry in Swedish. While the Swedish word "underliga" translates more to "strange" and "weird", the Finnish word "ihmeellinen" can also be translated as "wondrous" or "amazing". As I've read the poems first in Finnish, translated by another Finnish poet Uuno Kailas, I have always thought about the poem as a depiction of the wonderful, marvelous sea, full of wonders and peculiar oddities.
These three pieces are depictions of the first three lines of the poem. I bought an anthology just for these pieces as I wanted to include the verse to the piece. Naturally I could have just typed the words or used a printed sheet, but it didn't have the correct feel.
This first piece is called "Rare Fish". The line attached to the piece is: "Sällsamma fiskar glida i djupen" - "Rare fish glide in the depths". At first I thought to draw a fish of my own to the piece, making one up, but then decided against it. Instead, I chose to go with the Finnish National Fish - the European perch. While it's not rare by no mean, being the most common fish in Finland, to me it falls to the category of strange or peculiar. It's not a colorful, exotic underwater creature, but the combination of the bottle green, bright white and coral red is quite striking. And what about those spikes!
Thank you for stopping by today! Please be back tomorrow for another piece of the series!
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