Vol. 8 / Random Prints 2017

Random Prints 2017 / vol. 8 vedokset on nyt signeerattu ja pakattu. Pienen työn nimi on Kesäpäivä II ja se on kuvallista jatkoa viime kesänä Porissa toteutetulle pienemmälle Random Prints Special Edition -projektille. Vedosta on tehty yhteensä 90 kappaletta ja tällä(kin) kertaa projekti tapahtuu Suomessa. Paikoiksi on valikoitunut useampi kaupunki: Mänttä, Joensuu, Kajaani, Iitti, Lappeenranta - ja sattumalta vedoskuoreen voi törmätä myös ihan muualla.

I have now signed and packed the Random Prints 2017 / vol. 8 prints. The small artwork is called Summer Day II and it continues the theme of last year's Random Prints Special Edition. I have made 90 prints and this time (also) the event takes place in Finland, in several locations, for example in Mänttä, Joensuu, Kajaani, Iitti and Lappeenranta - and maybe, possibly, you may stumble upon one in some place else!

Peukuta Random Printsille stipendi! / 'Like' Random Prints to help it win a #kaupunkienergiaa grant!

Hei, kaikki Random Printsin ystävät! Tarvitsen apuanne! Käykää peukuttamassa Random Prints -projektilleni Helenin tapahtumastipendi! Sivun https://www.helen.fi/kampanjat/kaupunkienergiaa/2017-tapahtumakalenteri/random-prints/ alareunassa on musta tykkäysnappi, jonka painamisesta olen kovin kiitollinen! 

Hey, all friends of Random Prints! I need your help! Go to https://www.helen.fi/kampanjat/kaupunkienergiaa/2017-tapahtumakalenteri/random-prints/ and like the project (white thumb on black background at the bottom of the page) This could bring a Helen Ltd (Helsinki electricity) grant for my project!

#kaupunkienergiaa ?

Talvi, Suomi, Random Prints vol. 7 / Winter, Finland, Random Prints vol. 7

An Evening Tea.

Toteutan seitsemännen Random Prints -projektini Suomessa. Jaan 90 vedosta Helsinkiin, Raaheen, Ouluun ja Jyväskylään - ja ehkä johonkin näiden paikkojen välille - marras- ja joulukuun aikana 2016. Suuret kiitokseni Niilo Helanderin säätiölle projektini tukemisesta.

My seventh Random Prints project is taking place in Finland. In November and December 2016 I will leave 90 prints to be found in Helsinki, in Raahe and Oulu, and in Jyväskylä - and maybe somewhere in between these places. My biggest thanks goes to Niilo Helander Foundation for funding my project.

Random Prints Special Edition 2016

Random Prints -projektin erityisversio toteutetaan heinäkuussa 2016 Porissa. Vedoksia voi etsiä tällä kertaa koordinaateilla.

Random Prints Special Edition will be happening in July 2016 in Pori, Finland. This time you can search the prints by using coordinates!

Lue lisää / Read more





#randomprints2016

Video by Hahnemühle

Menschen (be)rühren und mit Kunst in Berührung bringen ...Päivi Hintsanen (Finnland) setzt ihr Random prints Projekt...

Posted by Hahnemühle on 20. elokuuta 2015

Thank you for Hahnemühle for promoting my project in this beautiful way!

Random Prints vol.5, 2015

Random Prints project vol.5 is here. I'll start to leave prints around next week. The artwork is titled Arriving, and there will be signed edition of 90 prints, printed on high quality Photo Rag Ultra Smooth 305g paper (100% cotton) in courtesy of ‪Hahnemühle.

Follow the project process at Instagram (or share your found picture with the tag:) #randomprints2015

Random Prints vol. 4

The Fragrance of Skies.

Random Prints project vol.4 is here. I'll start to leave prints around next week. The Fragrance of Skies, signed edition of 90 prints, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 188 gsm.

Random Prints vol. 3

This week I have left the first few letters and prints around Florence and Fiesole surroundings. The Random Prints letters will be left in random order - I don't know which print is left in which place.

The weather in Florence has been a bit unstable, which has made leaving the letters a bit more difficult as I have to try to find places where the wind doesn't take them or where the rain won't spoil them. (I don't actually think that the print would harm at all, but it might become a little wrinkled...)

I was very glad when Hahnemühle (the paper manufacturer; prints are printed on Hahnemühle smooth art paper) tweeted about this project and also the picture itself is now added to Hahnemühle "Album of Excellence".

So... I'm waiting for the first replies and searching for new places where to leave the next letters!

Random Prints vol. 3

One Cup of Fresh Sea-Water

Random Prints project vol.3 is here. I'll start to leave prints around next week.

Due to some Facebook changes old Random Prints group doesn't work so well anymore, so that's why I opened a Facebook page for this project - go and like to stay updated.

Stories of vol.2

All the prints are now left around Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. I've already got responses from people with some beautiful stories and I will update stories to this blog in the beginning of August. I will do some forgering and change storydates to match the exact date and time when I received the email originally  (just like I have done with last year's project).

Right now you can view the listing of some new homes of the prints in the side panel of this blog, right after the headline RANDOM PRINTS VOL. 2 (2011).

Random Prints vol. 2

The Essence of Whispering Tree.

Random Prints vol. 2 has started! I'll leave my 90 signed and numbered prints around Europe in June and July 2011 and I hope that people would "register" them like with the prints vol. 1 project - which went better than I had expected! I'll leave first prints today in Berlin - hopefully people will find them!

MAP with the stories

I finally set it up: The Random Prints Map with the stories.

The map also holds the smaller stories or just places the prints ended up (there were a couple of messages with only the final destination, nothing else), but also the long stories with more to say.

As I read these stories again I noticed a peculiar thing: many of the finders are artists themselves or studying art or something related closely to it.

Another strange peculiarity is that there are also two stories where a father of the family has found a print on church and brought it home to his daughter/daughters, one takes a short trip inside Florence and the another one takes a longer trip to Clodig, next to Slovenian border.

randomprints.blogspot.com/p/random-prints-map.html

Stories of the prints

I'll publish some stories that I've received. I first planned to publish them right after receiving the messages, but because the net connections were not so good, the project has been on standby. So, I'm about to do some forgering and change storydates to match the exact date and time when I received the email originally.

The stories will also be available on the map I will set up on the next week.

I only publish the letters and parts of the messages that the writers have given me permission to publish.

The stories are tagged found prints and they are all found listed in http://randomprints.blogspot.com/search/label/found%20prints

All the prints are now travelling...

...and some of them have already found a new home. This was a very strange day: it was the first one when I didn't have any letters left to leave anywhere and it felt a bit odd.

To this day I have received 15 replies, that is, at least 1/6 of all the prints have found a good home already :) I'm not expecting all founders to leave message for me, but I'm happy that there are already so many who have done so!

I'm getting soon back home (to Jyväskylä, Finland) and I'll make a map and collect some stories together as soon as I've settled in and got my bags unpacked.

About 30 prints left

...That is: 2/3 of all the prints are now somewhere travelling.

Since I'm using quite slow mobile web, making the map of the whereabouts of prints has been more difficult than I thought. The map and comments have to wait until I'll get back to better connection - still about one week.

I haven't set any date for leaving a message and it is totally optional anyway, but I'm of course glad of every response I get! I have to say: I'm already very satisfied on how many responses I've already got; many of them with a little story.

Tomorrow I'll be leaving these prints somewhere in Sienna.

In envelopes.

Finally, all signed and numbered, and put into envelopes with accompanying letter. Ready to be left around.

I'll leave first letters to be found tomorrow, on Tuesday August 24th, 2010.

I'm anxious to find out, when the first contacts will be made - or if there will be any. I have a strong feeling that I'll receive only a few answers and maybe most of the letters will be trashed or just left unnoticed - but who knows. I'm looking forward to find out.

The title of the print: A Tree Deserted

...The signing and numbering process of the the prints is proven to be harder than I thought. Actually, I've already signed them all, but I usually always also write the name of the image to the print - and this time the naming hasn't been so easy. I had one name in mind, when I first started to make this image, but in making process, it adapted a work title of A Tree In a Room. Which it still portrays (in my mind at least), but I've already named one of the following versions with that name and I've always thought that is quite boring to name things with running numbers, such as A Tree In a Room II.

Besides of that, I had thought about name that wouldn't be pointing to so very concrete idea but somehow would bring the "emotional" content forward, closer to the viewer; maybe to evoke some new thoughts. I wanted to name it with something that reflects the idea of the image, but not revealing all, leaving some space for the viewer's imagination too. I had several titles written down, but as it always seems to be happen: I soon found out the very first name I had in mind, before I even started to make the whole picture, was the right one.

So the title of the artwork is: A Tree Deserted

Where did the idea for this image come from?

I'm still in process of signing and numbering. After signing process is over, I'll publish the first photos of the Random print project and the name of the first random print artwork.

What comes to the background of the selected image of the print: I had several images finished or almost finished in my archives and also I had several ideas for totally new image in my head - so making the selection wasn't easy at all. I thought about this for a good time - about two months.

I didn't want to choose some spoilt, lame or unsuccessful images or drafts for project basis (...for some reason I have them a lot), but I wanted to choose an image that would show an idea, which would be characteristic to me. At the same time, I didn't want to choose a picture that was already totally finished, because I wanted to finish the image with this Random print project in mind.

Finally I found the idea for the image from the small sketch / draft which I made a couple of years ago. I had almost forgotten the sketch, even though the same one has already given an idea to three very different images: Apples (2007) from Once Upon A Time... series and A Tree In A Room (2009) and Archipelago from Elsewhere series (view www.coloria.net/dig.art/prints for closer look). The first two hold the idea of a tree in a room and the last one contains the idea of a bit unreal trees with a similar kind of composition.

However, even though the sketch itself has been an inspiration for my work and even if it has influenced to these three other images, I've never realised itself as it is. For me, figuring this out was just a bigger sign of that this would be the image to use. I then did realise the image very true to the original draft, preserving it's sketch-like properties.

From an artistic point of view I'm still not sure if it is the best image to this kind of small print, but for this project it is just what I wanted. Small image with a very simple idea but a very big meaning for myself and for my artwork.

The prints are now ready for signing and numbering

Today I've printed the rest of the prints. Now there are 90 small prints waiting for signing and numbering.

The printing process itself was quite pleasant job - after those several hours spent with solving printer and ink problems had passed by. I found out that one of the pigment inks in stock has been expired and another one will soon expire... Luckily I had the replacement ink for the already-expired one, but there is no replacement ink waiting for another one. And if one of the eight inks runs out, the printing process stops. The strange error messages, odd behaviour from my printer and the knowledge of the expiring ink made me very nervous: there are only a couple of days left to print, sign and number these artworks and to close them to envelopes if I want to stick to my plan.

But finally all worked out well. Harder projects are always the more precious ones!

The letter and translations

I've written a short letter in English to people who'll find the prints. English is a well known language, but I also wanted the letter in French and German, so I asked help from my frieds. Thanks for Pirkko for the French translation and thanks for Christine for German translation.

I will include all the three language versions on one paper so that there will be one letter and one print in each envelope.