How to see a different way of seeing

Seval Sener: Las Meninas after Velazquez, 2008, tempera, acrylic, glaze on paper, 27x13,5 cm.

It is quite rare have the possibility to experience the world through the eyes of a different culture. Our Western way of seeing is something we have learned (and learned to appreciate) and even that has been changing many times during the centuries.

Now you can challence your language of the eyes and brain in the tiny Islamic interpretations of five famous Western paintings by Turkish artist Seval Sener.

Her beautiful exhibition Renaissance Re-Ordered is eye-opening, and I am happy that I have seen it.

It is still open a few days, so hurry to AMA Studio, Rikhardinkatu 1, Helsinki, on Tues-Fri 11-17, Sat-Sun 12-16 until 29th March.

 

A bunch of flowers to Japan

My waterlily in the Veittijärvi lake, Finland.

Last Saturday afternoon the Finnish photographer Stefan Bremer took a flaming picture of tulips and put it on his Facebook page to brighten up the day, having the earthquake disaster in Japan in his mind.

The same evening he noticed that the picture got a great amount of positive response from his friends and invited them to participate.

- Let us by sharing an image of beauty brighten the sorrow of Japan! Please share this picture or post your own, he invited.

That was the beginning of a wonderful album. It was like to light a candle at the place of an accident – sudddenly there are more and more people wanting to participate, creating a new world of light, sending a message of hope and care.

Now when I am writing this the album A Flower of Beauty for Japan has 128 pictures, many by the most famous Finnish photographers and artists.

You can see the album if you are in FB and know a friend of Stefan or some of the photographers. Just ask them to share it.