Houessou, Jaana

Resent job: Artist, art educator, art researcher

Interest in art: expressing everyday experience in painting; everything connected or related to painting; color, wearing and erotion of the surfaces, people

Interest in research: Artistic process in visual art, experience of the artist, knowing in / through art, lifeworld, bodily experience, touching, visual thinking.

The purpose of my research is to open the conversation about elements affecting around the visual process. Artist herself chooses some elements to bild up her works. Her choices are based on intellectual and emotional elements but also on artistic aims. The other part of the elements forces itself into the works of art unnoticed, as an affect of her intertwined relation to the wolrld, as a cause of the environment or as an accident. The interest, the horizon of the artist, her focus and memory are continually knitting the net, which finally ends up to the works of art somehow. Diversity of these elements is the most interesting part in my research. I am willing to open this information through artist´s experience and practical knowledge.