Piia Kokkarinen: Arvaamatta

Rhythm, sprawling and whirlpools romp through the paintings. The theme of my works is passing through a space, moving towards it, leaving it behind. I seek ways to paint a world in which nothing stays in place, but in which form is constantly on its way towards another form. A large canvas gives the paint room to move, since the edges do not meet it right away. As the layers of paint accumulate, tensions bubble up between the colours and traces. The event arises from surprise, and at times surprise must be sought. Sometimes it smoulders in a dead end – when the illusion of a goal disappears, surprise may be set free. When I step into surprise, the forward edge of thinking disappears. Then I notice how, by automation, thinking pulls things into a line, tries to anticipate and guess. In surprise the world opens in every direction as branching bursts. There is no knowledge of what is to come, there are no guarantees, there is a range of possibilities and a flash of freedom. A thoroughgoing movement fizzes up, beyond the reach of words. Teeming movement roars between all concepts and contexts. Alongside uncertainty and ambiguity lives a strange certainty of existence. In the midst of unpredictability my feelings wobble between horror and enthusiasm. Play frolics in the air.