emiliesophie

NEW TIDE

2011-12-17T05:04:00.002+02:00

like so many others, i have jumped ship over to tumblr.

>> MIRACLEBASED.TUMBLR.COM

also, my website at emiliahaukka.org with a work-blog will be opening soon enough.

edging the mystical

2011-10-28T19:28:00.001+03:00

From my upcoming video work.

frostbitegrassland

2011-10-23T17:20:00.000+03:00

another migratory fascination

2011-10-04T13:57:00.002+03:00

I'm working on giving birth to an island. A two-screen video-installation due mid-November.

a nymph and the second birth

2011-09-07T01:30:00.001+03:00

wandering country

2011-09-06T23:37:00.002+03:00

the canyon a gap in the terrain
lost in the conversed continuum
steeped in sun rays and fog-light
preserved forever in two memories
and several peripheries

photographed in the oulanka canyon, july 2011

holiday tattoo

2011-08-29T00:19:00.001+03:00

quiet wind chime concerto

2011-08-08T18:04:00.002+03:00

a bachelor for one summer

2011-08-04T18:02:00.004+03:00

168 Van Horne

2011-07-26T23:19:00.000+03:00

unnamed brook

2011-07-26T23:12:00.003+03:00

Causapscal, Québec 2010.

rice & noodles

2011-07-25T03:19:00.004+03:00

mountain city ghostwork

2011-07-21T05:37:00.006+03:00

Photographed in Montréal winter 2010. A haunted place for me, always.

meadowsweet

2011-07-15T01:02:00.002+03:00

After a while I picked up my unusable but for its camera cellphone and went out to shoot some meadowsweet fields and sunset halos. Still love the pixel-indulgent saturated rendering.

uimaharha

2011-07-11T08:08:00.003+03:00

Uimaharha ('Swimming Delusion') 2011

This is currently exhibiting in Haapamäki, Finland in the show Maisema Wanhalla commissioned by Keuruu Art Museum. I'm exhibiting there with our newfound artist group Kirves.

delicious sky, magenta sugar

2011-07-04T19:43:00.005+03:00

stowaway

2011-07-04T07:19:00.003+03:00

cave

2011-07-04T07:09:00.003+03:00

nameless hotel

2011-07-01T01:12:00.003+03:00

(I still like your vision, Wong-Kar Wai)

rosewater parade

2011-07-01T00:59:00.003+03:00

Alanya, Turkey 2011

what surrounds you is only the transition

2011-06-20T02:17:00.002+03:00

How far is far?

2011-06-15T01:10:00.002+03:00

A photobooth photo of a photo of a photo.

The further and deeper you go, the more interesting it gets. Also, I find myself thinking nowadays: "If it doesn't work, pixelate and saturate it". Cheap tricks or fancy kicks? Digital sure is interesting.

I'm preparing for a summer group exhibition at the moment.

swimming pool tourist

2011-06-05T01:38:00.000+03:00

7° Secrets at Ars Scientia exhibition

2011-06-02T21:17:00.002+03:00

My video art debut 7° Secrets is currently screening in the exhibition Ars Scientia. The exhibition takes place in the University of Lapland galleries and corridors until 16th June 2011.

2011-05-03T01:16:00.002+03:00

2011-05-02T13:55:00.000+03:00

paras aika vuodesta

arctic ocean salt & islands of mist

2011-05-02T12:35:00.009+03:00

Lofoten, Norway, 2011

7° secrets

2011-04-19T00:03:00.001+03:00

from my upcoming video piece

spring / rain / town / today

2011-04-17T19:26:00.004+03:00

transference #00203

2011-04-11T23:14:00.001+03:00

Transference from Emilia Haukka on Vimeo.

seas of bright juice suffuse heaven and the forest fire smokes scoot obliquely high and back low

2011-04-10T00:22:00.008+03:00

the machinery of the rainbow and cedar forest so ancient the air i inhale like the light and shadow of a diaphanous transference. the junction of the tremendous sunrise in me and the ascension of the twin of my vision. with my tongue i encompass worlds and run my teeth across the chest of the earth tuning to the wavelengths of the prong-headed creatures of the undergrowth.

migration Y / b-side

2011-04-05T13:28:00.003+03:00

making of my video project

69°40′58″N 18°56′34″E

2011-03-30T13:35:00.002+03:00

rue des carrieres

2011-03-29T00:45:00.001+03:00

river territory backyard

2011-03-28T00:27:00.003+03:00

artificial food chain

2011-03-23T10:58:00.004+02:00

diving fantasy

2011-03-06T13:19:00.001+02:00

satellite sundays

2011-02-27T18:37:00.004+02:00

45°30'0'' N / 73°34'60'' W

60°43'00'' N / 135°03'00'' W

48° 21'0'' N / 67°13'0'' W

45°30'0'' N / 73°34'60'' W

carte blache of the universe

2011-02-22T19:47:00.003+02:00

i pin down my own constellations

Rovaniemi Design Week 2011

2011-02-18T23:40:00.005+02:00

I have been on photography assignment for Rovaniemi Design Week for the past three days now. Two more design-full days to come, with the grand finale spectacle of the Art & Design Faculty of the University of Lapland coming up on Saturday. A week full of challenges for me, but also full of contagious creative spirit!

Design for the skies! Launch of the Night of Design.

The Design Boutique of design students is the best place to find a new hot item.

Laughter in the Night of Design served by Lapland University Theater improvisation.

An interactive projection of Aku Meriläinen and Miila Kankaanranta illuminated the wall of Cafe Kauppayhtiö on the Night of Design.

Rimpparemmi folk ensemble premiered their new show.

Design is sharing - learning weaving in Taitolappi.

The last stretch of Team REDDO in the Design 24h competition.

Herbert Enns, professor of architecture from University of Manitoba shed light to his views on arctic building and living in a seminar of challenges on Wednesday.

Varpu Hautala writes her name with Laura Valkama's typeface - can you read the creature letters?

Darja Zaitsev, a superhero of the Pohjola In/Out show moving clothing design to be showcased on Saturday.

NATI design 2011-2020

2011-02-16T16:24:00.007+02:00

NATI design : VISION 2020

to create realities-that-do-not-exist

Ainonkatu 1, Rovaniemi.
Part of Rovaniemi Design Week 2011.

The first enterprise to undertake the new strategy for service design in the University of Lapland.

Transparent dimension at VALO

2011-02-14T09:46:00.001+02:00

Transparent dimension (3photos), 2011
Part of a Rovaniemi Design Week 2011 exhibition at gallery VALO, Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi

Paratiisimanner at PILKE

2011-02-14T09:43:00.004+02:00

Paratiisimanner (Paradise continent), 2010
Part of a Rovaniemi Design Week exhibition at PILKE, Ounasjoentie 6, Rovaniemi

The vast sea of woodlands separating two tectonic plates and the persistence of what binds two people together. By placing personal into the context of known myth I create my own ritual to reach one spiritual paradise continent.

trainyard nights

2011-02-07T00:17:00.002+02:00

secrets and the last kiss of asphalt

Moosehide Gathering 2010

2011-02-03T21:22:00.005+02:00

In summer 2010, traveling across Canada I ended up all the way in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. I volunteered for the bi-annual Moosehide Gathering in the Moosehide village few kilometers down the Yukon river from Dawson City. The gathering celebrates and honors the heritage of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in people. A heritage that survives since it was taken to their Alaskan cousins as songs and dances for safe-keeping and brought back only in 1993.

When I tell about this, and as people know my ways with photography, they say I must have gotten so many good photos from there. I took seven frames during the whole 4-day gathering - five of them you see here - simply due to the fact that I get overrun by a feeling of exploitation. The same happened in the suburb of Kayamandi in Cape Town, South Africa, 2007, where I only took one photograph, outside the actual area.

I do believe in the power of photography as a transformative medium, an agent of change, as a promoter of dialogue, as a facilitator, as a very important means of communication in the globalized world.

Sure a picture is worth a thousand words - but for what?

Pohjola IN / OUT pt.2

2011-02-03T12:13:00.002+02:00

A promotional photoshoot for Rovaniemi Design Week 2011 Fashion Show. Join the show on 19th February in the University of Lapland. More info.

Photographer: Emilia Haukka
Design: Merja Ulvinen
Make-up & hair: Pirita Norvanto
Model: Jatta & Krisse
Featuring: Northern Gate Safaris huskies

Pohjola IN / OUT pt.1

2011-02-02T13:34:00.003+02:00

A promotional photoshoot for Rovaniemi Design Week 2011 Fashion Show.

Photographer: Emilia Haukka
Design: Merja Ulvinen
Make-up & hair: Pirita Norvanto
Model: Jatta
Featuring: Northern Gate Safaris huskies

migratory cranes and wild hearts

2011-01-26T23:04:00.007+02:00

shieldless in the the wake of winter
a fading warrior of the backyard wilderness
cartographer of the space between
the twin-reeds and the scattered scales

now law less than ourselves

flooding light hit her face
poison of the berry-smoke ready to choke

the migratory cranes alone
crying out for freedom

spirit flash

2010-12-23T17:26:00.000+02:00

rovaniemi lovesong

2010-12-23T17:23:00.000+02:00

let's get mystical

2010-12-23T17:20:00.000+02:00

new project b-sides

2010-12-09T20:23:00.002+02:00

working title "arctic circle fishers"
my large format debut

mist and dirt

2010-11-30T23:26:00.001+02:00

le potager enchanté, gaspeise, qc.

no poetry today

2010-11-29T16:21:00.001+02:00

morning boys

2010-11-26T12:33:00.003+02:00

indigo / towards the yule

2010-11-23T23:27:00.003+02:00

i crashed the divination crystals and bent the flow of my spirit stream to embrace the coming solstice

they ripped down the forest

2010-11-20T13:24:00.003+02:00

but they would never
turn our minds and hearts
into the same

desolate,

barren,

toxic-sodden wastelands

sand and hair

2010-11-16T18:07:00.000+02:00

frol·ic

2010-11-11T16:46:00.001+02:00

n.
1. Gaiety; merriment: fun and frolic.
2. A gay, carefree time.
3. A playful antic.
intr.v. frol·icked, frol·ick·ing, frol·ics
1. To behave playfully and uninhibitedly; romp.
2. To engage in merrymaking, joking, or teasing.

i'm feeding you lies

2010-11-03T13:44:00.000+02:00

white light penalty

2010-10-31T23:56:00.001+02:00

dream twin & deepsea pulse

2010-10-16T23:14:00.005+03:00

first mobile phone pixel-love video edit experiments
in cyan and magenta with love

stranded river spirits

2010-10-14T02:21:00.007+03:00

our coral bones

drift ashore

and we all become ghosts

in the land

of eternal solstice

2010-10-10T17:12:00.002+03:00

for the brave, the curious and the queer

2010-10-08T16:57:00.002+03:00

22 minutes in saskatoon

2010-10-08T11:27:00.001+03:00

if we crucified you

2010-10-06T00:39:00.003+03:00

first solo exhibition

2010-10-06T00:11:00.001+03:00

// LOST MAGIC GARDEN //

//// 11.10.-28.10.2010
/// vernissage monday 11.10 at 6pm
// gallery VALO, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

rainbow lace

2010-09-30T00:22:00.000+03:00

waterfalls by donation II

2010-09-30T00:14:00.002+03:00

donate waterfalls to areas deprived of fresh water

or

adopt a waterfall (by donation)

violet bruises, white magnolias

2010-09-20T16:15:00.004+03:00

june heatwave

2010-09-17T00:35:00.004+03:00

assiniboine spirits and morning hue in the desert of all we thought we knew but never forgot as the rainbow sphere wrapped us in to the sweat of june

waterfalls by donation

2010-09-14T01:07:00.000+03:00

minkie whale + wild pea

2010-09-06T22:36:00.004+03:00

under the fireweed sky at the shore of the prairie sea the skyline pixels the only real thing when i inhale and turn away

bear bun cradle fun

2010-09-05T23:48:00.000+03:00

air + water

2010-09-04T13:20:00.000+03:00

deep sea

2010-08-30T20:18:00.003+03:00

building a diving bell
to gain lucidity

3rd sphere rainbow

2010-08-29T05:04:00.002+03:00

wild prairie boy and dandelion pride

2010-08-06T20:37:00.000+03:00

deerhunt

2010-08-06T20:29:00.001+03:00

violent cascade dreams

2010-08-04T10:22:00.002+03:00

hydromagical epiphany

2010-07-05T01:08:00.004+03:00

cybermonologue

2010-06-18T08:15:00.001+03:00

2010-06-17T02:41:00.003+03:00

roses rain water source fly

2010-06-16T18:46:00.002+03:00

2010-06-16T18:44:00.001+03:00

2010-06-14T21:43:00.002+03:00

seduced by the flash of light the thunder the cold icy wind on your cheek and we escaped through the sewers the light flickered and i lost your hand

2010-06-10T19:35:00.000+03:00

hair / wood

2010-06-09T05:00:00.004+03:00

2010-06-08T09:32:00.003+03:00

deep dark magenta pixels / evergreen groves

cellphone photography = !

LOST MAGIC GARDEN

2010-05-10T20:25:00.002+03:00

Dirt is always dirt, and any garden can be the garden of Eden.

No paradise birds sing their songs here, but the lush and verdant plants entwine with steel, defying human construction. Goldfish break the surface of the water and nature's eternal mystery unfolds. Isn't it a curious wonder? Nothing stays hidden behind the transparent walls: play your antics, watch the fungi sprout.

Not confined but preserved in the glass house is a piece of a realm that many of us long for. Above the rooftops of a city the light shines brighter and warmer, obscuring the urban surroundings. Is the paradise really lost?

As a photographer, I immersed myself in the surreal world of a greenhouse and let the magic take hold of me.

Lost Magic Garden ; C-prints, 20" x 24", 2010

OUR DIVINE HANDS

2010-05-08T01:04:00.005+03:00

Has all the myth and magic disappeared?

By using the possibilities of digital collage I make visible what is often conceived invisible. I use the elements of earth and stone to suggest that there is a subterranean flow of natural force that one can connect to through a ritual. The ritual I depict is based on hand gestures and objects or places that have a symbolic meaning to that ritual.

I focus on the theme transformation: human hands have the power to transform the nature and the natural forces have the power to transform humans. This exchange and transformation should be equal - and thus the rope as a ritualistic object symbolizes the way humans are tied to the nature and should retain a respect towards it.

Digital prints, 2010.

teaser

2010-03-08T07:43:00.001+02:00

a cosmic rope

just to tease you to stay tuned.

OUR DIVINE HANDS: earth / magic / necromancy

2010-02-04T04:37:00.009+02:00

i did like the interpretation of human agency in death and decay.
our divine hands do not always do the best of things.

and the asphalt / earth transformation talk.

i still remember a teacher who was once shocked that how could i do something dark in my works. if she saw me now... not that this random assignment is the darkest thing i'm working on.

ps. i would like take that cheesy diamond away

anomalous occurances

2010-02-01T01:23:00.003+02:00

the night of the biggest and brightest full moon

hiding secrets

2010-01-22T23:30:00.000+02:00

whale song

2010-01-22T07:07:00.004+02:00

2010-01-20T00:03:00.002+02:00

new york city, it swallowed me whole

improvised gaiety and other misleadings

2010-01-14T02:38:00.003+02:00

2009-12-17T09:20:00.002+02:00

more forgotten treasures!
here again: the best photos happen when outside that box of where i too often confine myself.