Board for Helsinki - made by Julia Bäck / Work in progress 3/3
Julia Bäck shows how she draws a city poster. Here is part three in the series about the Helsinki board.
There. There at the end of the video you have it. My depiction of Helsinki.
When anyone can see my work, it’s as if I see it for the first time too. So far, this has been lines, sketches, occupations, work. Now it is a whole, ready to be packaged and sent home. I’ve seen every pixel of my paintings but my own paintings are placed in the "paintings" slot in the brain’s category system and then I sometimes have to remind myself who the artist is. A good example is when I came home this spring after almost four months. During this time, I had hardly seen my paintings and certainly not framed, so I went up to mom’s paintings and thought “I made those” haha. Seeing the first copy of a new painting printed and framed is an aha experience in itself. A pdf file is not as charming as a half-meter high painting.
An exciting thing about the Helsinki painting is that the farther away we get from my hometown Korsholm, the more buyers there are who don’t know me. It didn’t actually come as a big shock that my parents bought my paintings. But I like the thought of all those paintings with my name on them hanging on the walls of people I don’t know. Those who don’t care about me but care about my art. It's motivating. I hope this painting will bring joy to both acquaintances and strangers.
