Salla Partanen

 
  Faith, Love and Hope; eternal emotional dope - from tattoo to mosaic art  
  Ceramics and Glass Design   2154/2004
 
 
Image: Salla Partanen 2004
 
 

The author of this final work produced a three-piece series of ceramic murals. She did not have a cooperative partner, so the work is intended for exhibition purposes. The author studied the mosaic technique and mosaic’s similarity to tattoo pictures with the definition: ”faith, love, hope” and the meaning of the tattoo to herself. The objective of the final work was to combine the two different art trends into one working entity, to express the author’s own feelings through art production and improve her skills for future works. The central problems in this work were combining mosaic and tattoo art together, finding a good design and finding the right colours. The author describes in the theory part, how she developed her final work from an idea to a plan. After that she familiarises the reader with the history of mosaic and tattoos and with the illustrations represented in them and their unifying factors. The author was inspired by the above mentioned factors and chose ”faith, love, hope” as her work theme. Then she describes the actual work in four parts: sketching, making sampling, working with clay and putting the work together. She also gives information about the symbolism of the pictures and what they mean on a personal level. The author interprets the work through her own life; they reflect her own history. Her time in the Kuopio Academy of Design has provided her work with lots of emotion, because it has been the beginning of one era and the end of another. The author hopes that the audience will also find meanings for their own lives from the work. The author is satisfied with the final result. The work came out as a successful entity with its three different pieces also functioning individually. The author succeeded in expressing her thoughts and feelings about faith, love and hope into ceramic art. She also learnt much about mosaic techniques along the way and found a ceramic technique that she could use for making a living in the future. The final work has already been in one exhibition: Tikkakoski’s Tohinat-exhibition on 13.-15.8.2004. After that the author took them to Antti Rossi’s tattoostudio Fireline Tattoo in Jyväskylä. The works were there from 1st of September until 11th of November 2004.

 
  Keywords: ceramic, mural, mosaic technique, low fire glazes  
  Right of use: To be studied in the place where deposited. Can be freely copied in the place where deposited.  
  Number, file/product, number of pages:
2154:1 Folder A4 Report, pages 80
 
  Other parts of the work and where deposited:
2154:2 Three mosaic works : in possession of the author 2154:3 Samples: in possession of the author