Saku Soukka

I found this work fascinating, and I am not all entirely sure. I wasn't going to pick Soukka because I didn't know why I was drawn to it, but I kept on going back to look again, so I finally decided to use his photos. His random use of color I think is stunning. The way he hides the face, even in the last one. We can see more of her, but we still get the sense that there is something to be hidden.

As we have talked about in past posts...why are there so many people working with distortion? I have been with my shower and now the underwater photos, then Monica with the foggy substance, and Chris with his contraption. What is our fascination with distorting a person or the things we see around us? There is obviously the same feeling everwhere. Soukka is working in Finland, and yet we here, are trying to accomplish I feel a similar thing by our distortion work. I think he creates such a chaos in his that we haven't felt in ours so much. I believe in my work, there is not so much a chaos, but almost a fluidity. At least that is what I am "trying" to accomplish as we near the end of this semester. I think I have struggled, and discovered quite a bit this semester...Struggled in a way that it has been hard for me to stay consistant when I shoot, but discovered because each time I shoot I see something new that intrigues me, and works in a large body of work. That makes me excited. I feel like I am going to continue to work with underwater work for awhile, trying different forms of camera to see what I can achieve. This is my work's distortion though...but what about Monica's and Chris's. Are you making it with the intention that someone feel something from it, and that in the end you will have something to fit in a body of work? With Jacki...are you finding that working in the prison is causing you to have so many different bodies of work, that you are struggling to find a pattern. Is a pattern necessary?

I feel that with Soukka's work, he has accomplished making a pattern with his work, but they are all so different. I would not have thought them to be able to flow so well, but his use of color (similar to Chris's in a way) makes them all blend so well. They just have such harmony. I appreciate his different elements that make it so.