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Jaana MaijalaOn CorrespondenceThere is a place or situation evoking a sensation, or thought, that will be followed by a drawing. I fill my papers with traces, and instead of drawing what I see I draw my existence. In other words: I draw as long as it takes to settle down after seeing a Pollock, or as long as the subway ride to Coney Island takes, or as long as the tumbler drier rolls. Drawings are attempts to capture moments, to save experiences though the rhythm of the pencil. I take photographs of my drawings. Drawing is a tool of trial, thought and concentration, but all the time my aim has been at a photograph. Relations between a process and a pencil-made image intrigue me but what happens when photography interferes? Of course photographs have the possibility to vary in size and amount, but by photographing my drawings I also choose the moment and the illumination I want to show. The surface of the drawing changes constantly: reflections, shadows, deep blacks, highlights, they all are in a move until camera arrests them. This is also a step that changes the drawing's materiality: what used to be pencil on a sheet of a notebook is now an illusion of mass. Photography changes paper to space and gives weight to a line. But what I finally get is interacting objects. We understand movement in terms of physical laws: the way we see things moving, and the way we selves move in the grip of gravity. The ways we are going and the directions we are pulling are many. Most of them tend to throw us around, slide us towards the cliffs - collisions or bursts. But there can also be affection that great it makes us draw straight line through out our years. Jaana Maijala 
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