Vivi-Mari Carpelan, a Finnish artist resident in Mid-Wales, UK, has created symbolic images since 1991. Afflicted with a chronic illness since childhood, it comes naturally to her to explore emotional issues of belonging versus not belonging in a society mostly designed for people with wealth and health. Her work expresses paradox, as a fundamental and crucial characteristic of reality. While ill health and alienation are linked with shame and helplessness, these can also give rise to strength of character, deeper insights into matters of life and death, and the advantage of a more objective viewpoint in regards to society at large.

As the daughter of two professional photographers she also sees the world through the lens, and is especially fascinated with abstract photography which she calls metaphysical, as it records the beauty in unlikely and often overlooked places. There is a symbolism inherent in the concept of the shabby outside of containers. She hopes to raise them to the level of meaningful and strangely aesthetic art, the vision of a kind of heightened reality. She also hopes this will help encourage other people to see the world with fresh eyes and become more aware of every day aesthetics.

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Please also visit my blogs, A Spiritual Journey on Planet Earth (www.vivi-mari.blogspot.com) and the Swedish language blog about living and surviving as an artist and the other half in an artists couple (www.vivimaricarpelan.blogspot.com). … Read More