How to Measure Melancholia?
Hyytiäinen, Sonja (2022)
Hyytiäinen, Sonja
2022
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My work consist layers of melancholia. It shows the sifting balance of liquids, black bile, faces and the landscape of melancholia. I can remember my first memory. The room, I am sitting on the floor facing towards the window. The door is open and there is a red carpet. The light coming from the window is blue and it is really quiet. My first memory doesn't rise in me nostalgia, it rises melancholia. I believe we are born with melancholia.
Melancholia is a grief without a target, maybe something happens when we are born, maybe the grief comes from that longging towards our mothers, but it might be also something else, because some people are more melancholic than the others.
The feeling of melancholia can suddenly rise in the middle of your daily tasks. It's a fleeting moment maybe a little bit with nostalgia. There is a thin line where melancholia changes to depression. There is a long history about melancholia, how it was observed and treated from the old age to today.
In my work I am inspired by the history but I try to look in to melancholia, not pointing out the different diagnoses of depression. I am not a scientist, I am an artist and I can play
Melancholia is a grief without a target, maybe something happens when we are born, maybe the grief comes from that longging towards our mothers, but it might be also something else, because some people are more melancholic than the others.
The feeling of melancholia can suddenly rise in the middle of your daily tasks. It's a fleeting moment maybe a little bit with nostalgia. There is a thin line where melancholia changes to depression. There is a long history about melancholia, how it was observed and treated from the old age to today.
In my work I am inspired by the history but I try to look in to melancholia, not pointing out the different diagnoses of depression. I am not a scientist, I am an artist and I can play