I’m creating an installation for the Kuvan Kevät exhibition with a woodcut technique combined with photography. My work deals with the structures of an identity – the uncertainty of the moment and the expectations for the future. I take pictures of people from my surroundings and use the digital source material as sketches for the woodcut plates. The ostensible reproduction of a photograph on the thin Japanese paper is an attempt to create a new kind of focus to the portraits.
I chose block printing as the medium because I’m interested in the various possibilities provided by this practice. The plate can be printed in countless different ways. The meditative carving process of the plywood plate is also central to my work.
sanna.kumma@gmail.com