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Arkkitehti
Silja Aholan työskentelyä
ohjaavat sekä
materiaalien elämään uudessa yhteydessä. Joskus materiaalin
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Architect Silja
Ahola
profile found at the
recycling center, an old
book, a fragment of a
mirror, a monotype plate or a’s
work is guided by
the infinite possibilities of
using materials and
the aesthetics of the book
form. "Interest in the
artist’s book was awakened
when I studied
paper-making
five
years ago. The
properties of the
hand-made paper observed by
touching and the eye
captivated me. Paper itself
was a self-evident artist’s
material which could be
naturally be shaped into
the form of a book. Later
I became involved with
various recycled materials
which were originally
related to other contexts,
made for other purposes.
They might be an aluminum
piece of a print... all of
them can be given a new life
in a new context. Sometimes
the origin of the material is
discernible, sometimes it
has been destroyed, but there
is always a
depth, one layer of time added
to the experience that is
the basis of the individual book work. A material I have recently started to use is ceramic clay, which gave birth to the series ”Kivikirjoja” |