iisa maaranen

The mind wanders, is full of data and the ability to concentrate is missing. Focus Flees is a

sensitive series of tempera paintings that tells about a wandering mind in the world of digital

age. It flies among the antennas above the roofs, in the meadows and on the sides of the

road. Hangs around online. Compares. Runs away. Stares out the window. Dreams. It

hovers around like some spirit being that can’t stop. It searches endlessly something. But it

doesn’t know what.

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Focus Flees is a series of experiential paintings. It doesn't look at the world very rationally.

Rather, trying to pierce the level of knowledge, to find things beneath the surface that are

difficult to define. Subjects and objects are abstracted. Things and spaces overlap,

transform and get layered. Color, light and gesture take over the painting.

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Alfred Kordelin Foundation, many thanks for supporting the working of the exhibition.