46 47 When we started this LiLa project, we were asked to describe how we perceive landscape.
When I described “my landscape”, I wrote that landscape can simply be colours. At least in terms of how I see it, there is a totally different colour world in Russia than in Finland. In my piece Colour Maps, I depict a map comprising the dominant colours of Russian and Finnish landscapes or mindscapes. I am also a wall painter, so colour maps are familiar to me. I learned that, if I wanted to use the precise shades of colour, I must use colour pastes, which are used for mixing wall paints. On my maps, the colours are not flat, because they do not exclusively represent shades, but also mindsets and soulscapes.
Colour Maps
Emilia Mustajärvi,
Master student in Art Education, University of Lapland6 x acrylic on board, 120cmx45cm, 2018 Images: Emilia Mustajärvi