Residency artists and researchers Painting, drawing, printmaking Elina Julin Visual artist At the Saari Residence, I will continue working on the series Ghosts. I will be creating new pictures from previous ones. In this case, ghosts are the ghosts of pictures, the aspects of my photographs that are left unseen, masks of pictures familiar to the photographer. The works were inspired by the visual world of photograms as well as by old, black and white ghost pictures. I wish to draw attention to silent and easily forsaken things. The simplest things are often the most complicated. My works also reveal my interest in the structures of a picture, in light and shadow and in a simplified form of expression. My visual work combines both photography and painting. However, photography suits my mobile and ever-changing way of working. I also hope to use my time at the Residence for reading and for getting to know the grounds. Furthermore, I will familiarize myself with new things; I plan to, for example, learn to use a tablet. I hope that the surroundings will become incorporated in my work. I have already been welcomed to the Manor by the starry sky of the crisp, rainy autumn and by a lone eagle-owl. WWW.ELINAJULIN.COM