HEIKALA
Heikala wants her art to be a glimpse into the life of a character, a little moment in a larger story. You see it in her illustration of the solitary cloaked figure walking in the snowy wilderness accompanied by a tiger, the girl and her cat staring at a meteor shower at night, the witch who appears to be migrating with a flock of birds.
To get to these glimpses, these little moments, the Finnish illustrator often finds herself throwing around some unusual thoughts.
“If witches travel abroad, do they use aeroplanes or do they fly across continents on their brooms? Do they need passports? Do witches have to go through customs and declare their potion-making equipment? I like to play around with these things in my head and sometimes the ideas become nice paintings where the viewer can figure out the story behind the picture.”
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