Art Films
Short videos made of my art work for extra fun with unique contexts. All content in these add-on's is made by myself: filming, editing, music, sound, poetry
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TIPPERARY, 2020
Water color, crayon, 30 x 21 cm
Current status: Original work sold by the artist
I was trying out new watercolor pencils and was drawing a jackal. Do not ask me why.
Instead I got a long-legged happy-go-lucky young piglet who definitely looked like he's singing Tipperary….
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Peilityyni, 2005
Pencil, 14 x 21 cm
Patti Smith already wrote: art/rat. Here's to you Patti!
My rap song is unfortunately only in Finnish, but here is the transcription:
I was walking past a Rat Shop
They sold rats there
Rat, rat, rat, rat, rat , rat, rat, rat, rat, rats
I turned around and went in
They actually sold rats there
Rat, rat, rat, rat, rat , rat, rat, rat, rat, rats
I asked them if it was possible for me
to buy a small ratsy thing
The kind that sits on your shoulder
and also keeps it tidy?
The shopkeeper looked at me
with a blank face and said
extremely formally
yet somewhat concerned:
Do you think you meet the requirements
for the rat to be taken good care of?
...
Original drawing sold internationally in Taiko, link below.
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ANTELOPE (I STILL HEAR YOU), 2016
acrylic on cardboard, 74 x 110 cm
Current status: Original work sold by the artist
The original name of this painting is Antelope (I Still Hear You).
I was simultaneously making a sculpture of the same antelope with plaster of Paris and as I had finished it I noticed I had forgotten the ears and quite liked it so. When I got back to the painting, I erased his ears also and called it Antelope ( I Still Hear You).
When wondering what kind of an add-on would suit this painting, I wrote a poem:
I don’t want you deer
it’s my nature
just my nature that burns in me
makes me follow you up
and turn and burn
get caught up by strings
and clothes of all variety
uncomfortable and all
comfortable too
this is what I do
in all these clothes
I say boo
you say:
I still hear you
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Here is the link to LITTLE THINGS-video that tells the story of the picture in Finnish on another page where you will also find a transcript in English:
MUSIC VIDEO: POEMS - BONES OF A SPARROW
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The ad on my book of poetry: Runoja - Varpusen luita, 2008, WSOY (Poems - Bones Of A Sparrow). Lyrics & music by Heini Lehväslaiho, Tipi Tuovinen on guitar.
VARPUSEN LUITA
jos lentäisit luokseni
ja laskeutuisit viereeni
näkisit katseestani tämän
ennen sinua on sydämeni kantanut
vain pieniä lintujen luita
ei muita
vain varpusen luita
Kansikuva: "Puhtaita unelmia": Heini Lehväslaiho 2005
Graafinen suunnittelu: Marja-Leena Muukka
KIRJAA VOI TILATA TEKIJÄLTÄ HINTAAN 20€ (sis. postikulut) : heini.lehvaslaiho@gmail.com
LET'S GO CRAZY WITH MY BAND DAKOTA KOLLECTIVE:
A one minute film of a sheep and a pin pile. Dakota Kollective made the music (inspired by the film Gadjo Dilo) with Heini Lehväslaiho on vocals and tibetan bowl, Phil Carr on bodhran and Donny McCracken on guitar (2014). Animation by Heini Lehväslaiho.
2014 THE CHANGE
Heini Lehväslaiho - Words, music, vocals, guitar
Phil Carr - lead guitar, musical arrangement
Donny McCracken - rhythm guitar, musical arrangement
Charli Carr - bass
Video - Dakota Kollective, Neruda the dog
http://dakotakollective.wordpress.com
It was crazy, we did it on one take, no rehearsals!
NOTE the film starts in total silence