Monday, February 26, 2018

Favourite directors

Carl Dreyer
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), The Word (1955)

Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960)

Federico Fellini
La Strada (1954), 8 1/2 (1963), Satyricon (1969)

Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971),
The Shining (1980)

Mario Bava
Black Sabbath (1963), Blood and Black Lace (1964),
Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)

Roman Polanski
Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Tenant (1976)

George A. Romero
Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978),
Day of the Dead (1985)

Dario Argento
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Deep Red (1975),
Suspiria (1977)

David Cronenberg
The Brood (1979), Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986)

David Lynch
Eraserhead (1977), Twin Peaks (1990–91),
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Peikko - Goblin


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Pyyhitty - Erased


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

About my ideas


I'm not trying to be the next Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz or Vincent van Gogh. Ideas are part of my own vitality and sanity. In order to feel alive I have to discover different ways to surprise myself. I'm not going to draw something that I can fully explain or copy something
I found.

Some people feel the need to apologise. They have one strange idea and they panic. I have always felt things deeply, but the true value of this eluded me for a long time. I also used to feel guilty because
I wanted to spend more time by myself. In a way I was missing who
I was. The world of ideas allows me to breathe. As an artist everything around me is for my own use.

I want to have ideas but I can't say I wanted to have these specific ideas. My drive is influenced by rediscovered childhood, emotional fantasies and fresh mixtures of bodily and environmental chemistries.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

I never start a drawing with these words


This will simply frighten people.

I already know everything about what I do.

This will be easy.

I have to carefully plan or explain every step I take.

This will simply shock or impress.

No one should see this.

This will be my ultimate idea.

I don't have the freedom to fail.

This will obviously sell.

I only care about history or references.

Friday, February 16, 2018

Tuomareita - Judges


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

20 favourite albums

Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
Bernard Herrmann: Psycho (1960/1975)
The Sonics: Here Are The Sonics (1965)
Otis Redding: In Person at the Whisky a Go Go (1968)
Pokelat: Keskiyön auringon lauluja - Songs of the Midnight Sun (1969)
Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West (1970)
The Stooges: Fun House (1970)
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (1971)
Goblin: Suspiria (1977)
Discharge: Why (1981)
Discharge: Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (1982)
Bad Brains: Bad Brains (1982)
The Cure: Pornography (1982)
Celtic Frost: Morbid Tales (1984)
Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion (1985)
Diamanda Galas: The Divine Punishment (1986)
Mana Mana: Totuus palaa (1990)
Angelo Badalamenti: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Thorns: Thorns (2001)
Virus: Carheart (2003)

Monday, February 12, 2018

Quotations from Arthur Machen, Herbert Read, Stephen Fry


"I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned."
Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan, 1894


"The cultured Greeks, it seems, had no word for culture. They had good architects, good sculptors, good poets, just as they had good craftsmen and good statesmen. They knew that their way of life was a good way of life, and they were willing if necessary to fight to defend it. But it would never have occured to them that they had a separate commodity, culture - something to be given a trade-mark by their academicians, something to be acquired by superior people with sufficient time and money, something to be exported to foreign countries along with figs and olives. It wasn't even an invisible export: it was something natural if it existed at all - something of which they were unconscious, something as instinctive as their language or the complexion of their skins. It could not even be described as a by-product of their way of life: it was that way of life itself."
Herbert Read: To Hell with Culture, 1963


"The arts and humanities strike me as more important than ever. We need to understand our soul, spirit, sense of beauty, sense of humour, empathy, love, jealousy, rage, hate, boredom, surprise, enmity, faith, loyalty, art, dance, inspiration, intellect and excitement, because the more machines rise the more time we will have to be human and fulfill and develop to their uttermost our true natures."
Stephen Fry: Shannon Luminary Lecture, 2017

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Kuningatar - Queen


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Favourite film posters

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Suspiria (1977)
Black Sunday (1960)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Repulsion (1965)
Vertigo (1958)
Les Diaboliques (1955)

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Official Twitter


https://twitter.com/Rintaperala

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Malli - Model


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Tumma - Dark


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.