“Puppet Girl” digital collage (2020). Soon available.
This one was so much fun to make. In a way it is a self-portrait of how I use to be (a puppet girl for others to manipulate). I have outgrown the chains and nails and I no longer allow anyone to make me feel like a puppet.
Today I’ve launched my new writing project DARK SURREALISTS UNITED – where I interview dark surrealists and dark artists from all over the world! Please take your time to read the interviews, whenever you feel like getting to know your favorite dark surrealist!
Ok, now go and have a look!♥
“The Circle” (2020), digital collage. Available.
“The Distraction” by Mia Makila, 2020 (based on an older version from 2007). Available.
“The Pink Room” by Mia Makila, 2019, digital collage. Edition of 5. Available.
NEW! “Under His Eye” by Mia Makila, 2019. New media collage. 55 x 53 cm. Edition of 5. Available.
“Paranoia” by Mia Makila, 2019, acrylics on board, 35 x 27 cm. Available
“Earthquake” by Mia Makila, 2019. Digital Ultrachrome print. Edition of 5. Available
NEW! “She-Devil” by Mia Makila, 2019. Digital Ultrachrome print. Edition of 5.
Videos and photos from my MONSTER TEAM art show with Maria Wingård on culture night in Norrköping, Sweden, September 29th 2018 (Norrköpings kulturnatt).
NEW! “The Empty Stroller” by Mia Makila, 2019. Digital collage.
Here is the second collaboration piece by me and Candice Angelini.
“No Place Like Home” art collaboration by Mia Makila and Candice Angelini, 2017
What a strange night. The church bells kept ringing for an hour. In the morning, I woke up to rain and feeling slightly off. But I’m working again, painting on ‘The Wound’. and coming up with new ideas for more paintings. It’s funny, every time I add hair to my characters, it ruins the whole expression. I can’t do hair for some reason. I ended yesterday’s work with making the character bald and I felt better about it.
Some of my baldies:
And characters with hair:
I’ve been losing a lot of hair this year, due to stress, and it is one of my biggest nightmares to become bald and completely hairless. I love my hair, it makes me feel feminine and beautiful. A lot of my sexuality is in my hair, I don’t know how to explain it.
Perhaps the core expressions – embodied in my demons, have to be as bald as they are bold because they are not about gender, identity or beauty. They are human, deeply intimate – channeling our inner child and spirit and who we are at the core. Something that is real and raw and connects us all. Hair is a superficial part of the human body – I go deeper than that. My demons even lack skin. So to put a fancy hairdo on top of their heads is like decorating a Christmas tree, it takes away from what they want to say. What I want to say. What the core has to say.
MIA MAKILA 