on-line diary
My on-line diary, Viiva on line is an Instagram publication in which I keep an open diary with abstract image elements, line, color and shape. The name is a wordplay, as the Finnish word “viiva” means a line and the word “on” means is or equals.
Originally the on-line diary continued the association exercises, which I had directed for special groups. First of all, there was a desire to try to work with pictorial elements in a diary-like, yet abstract way, so that the line, color, and shape expressed the emotional state without directly illustrating it. Secondly, there was a need to comment on people’s urge to open up in social media, the #toomuchinformation culture, in which the overriding feeling is often second-hand embarrassment. I created an instagram profile for the diary and started publishing even my most intimate diary entries concealing nothing. I don’t say anything nor do I comment on my posts. The spectator of the image sees everything, and even if they interpret my annotations, the “analysis” is based on their history and imagination. They operate on the basis of their own "codebook". I started the diary as an experiment years ago and the process keeps going on.
By the way, I have not written a word in a (trdaitional) diary since I started this routine.
Originally the on-line diary continued the association exercises, which I had directed for special groups. First of all, there was a desire to try to work with pictorial elements in a diary-like, yet abstract way, so that the line, color, and shape expressed the emotional state without directly illustrating it. Secondly, there was a need to comment on people’s urge to open up in social media, the #toomuchinformation culture, in which the overriding feeling is often second-hand embarrassment. I created an instagram profile for the diary and started publishing even my most intimate diary entries concealing nothing. I don’t say anything nor do I comment on my posts. The spectator of the image sees everything, and even if they interpret my annotations, the “analysis” is based on their history and imagination. They operate on the basis of their own "codebook". I started the diary as an experiment years ago and the process keeps going on.
By the way, I have not written a word in a (trdaitional) diary since I started this routine.