Marika Pentikainen, 668, Chander Road, Little India, 2018

Marika Pentikainen
668, Chander Road, Little India, 2018
Photography, Fine Art Print, Limited edition of 15

Print: 28cm (W) x 35.5cm (H)
Framed Print: 41cm (W) x 48.5cm (H)

About the artist
I was born in Finland in the late seventies, surrounded by snow and the glow of gaudy wallpaper. I grew up in a small town called Jyvaskyla and then grew up some more in Helsinki, the capital. Today, I’m continuing on my life’s journey exploring Asia through photography. My aim is to take photos of ordinary people in their every day lives and through it get to know different cultures and history. I travel between Singapore, US and Finland which all I can call my home.

I’m inspired by people and especially by what we can’t easily see – human destinies, tensions between people, feeling threatened, and things like sensuality, love, friendship, family ties, nurturing and caring for others.

I’ve studied photography in Finland and the United States. Now I combine Art photography and what I have learned in self-study, and I continue to learn. The way we experience, feel and see the world isn’t always something we can learn just from books or from the brand name of our camera. Successful photography, for every living and breathing individual, is based on our thoughts and how we guide our thoughts from the inside of our mind out into the world for everyone to see and experience visually.

About the artwork
“I have a soul,” the apartment building whispered in the wind towards the people walking by below. Chander Road had not yet awoken to the day’s activities, but even so, the few people out on the road didn’t hear the building and its nostalgic breath indicating that it, that splash of candy color, also had a soul. The building was ready to share its story. Stories about everything the building had absorbed into itself over the years and decades, just like the independent sun that always rises into the sky to show itself.

Framing
Single mat board with gloss white frame design, TruVue UltraVue glazing that is anti-reflective with up to 70% UV protection.