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I had heart-shaped balloons but I guess they were old since they did burst when I tried to blow air into them. Well, it was quite easy to edit the normal balloon to look like one. So much cry. So much pain. Still missing you, my only one.
My Only One
Last of the XPS miniatures used in these images. This time the bathtub of stone. I was sitting on our balcony in 2019 and looked at the sky. It was a good cloud day, so I fetched my camera and took about one hundred cloud images during the day. Images are used as brushes or...
The endless rain
I just love using masks in my images. You just can use them in so many ways to tell stories. And for this image, there is plenty of them. Again a different role for today. Too scared to be yourself. Playing something you think others want to see. But it is just your empty shell.
Roles I Have to Play
HM for Our Minds in Fine Art from 14th International Color Awards, 2021.
14th International Color Awards
Another photo with Frank the skeleton. This time he got the dress on and the bomb from the old picture. Trust you seek but shall not find. The riddle near you will hunt you down.
Trust you seek
How to combine mental issues and theme fire. I have played with matches before and I thought that they work in this theme too.
Burnout
This was one of the first ideas for this series. I was thinking between the hourglass and the alarm clock but the alarm clock with the number 13 won. Trying to stop the time? It is useless. You got what you got. It is how you use it.
13 O’Clock
Angel character can be found in many religions. As an atheist myself I don’t have religious views for it. For this image, I see it as a vulnerable human being whose wings are easily broken in today’s unforgiving world. This idea came from Stam1na’s song title “Enkelinmurskain” (Angel Crusher) and I mean the title only....
Angel Crusher
DIY Photography: The Dark Room Photo Project Mixes Life-size Models with 1:6 Scale Diy Props Petapixel: The Dark Room: Shooting a Series with Life-Size Models and 1:6 Scale Props
The Dark Room featured in…
I stood on a couple of wooden blocks here. Even then I had to take most of the images without the mask since it was too much for my balance. I have only one cube so this image had to be made from several images anyway. You are hanging by a thread and trying not...
Balanced Life
Photoart project mixing life-size models, 1:6 scale props and digital backgrounds. I was listening to my favourite band Sentenced and their album “The Cold White Light”. While listening I started thinking “Should I make images from the songs in my favourite album?”. Well, that was the original plan in February 2020. Now ideas have gone...
The Dark Room: The Story
For this image, I made a thin PVC pipe to look like a bigger pipe using paints and 3D printed bolt rings. The shit just keeps on coming. It’s poured on you day after day. Like an endless diarrhoea keeping you down on your knees.
Pour shit down your neck
Another image with 1:6 scale prop. This time XPS foam chair. Nails are real old nails and the helmet is a kitchen bowl. Conduits are a shower hose attached with a magnet to the bowl. I am starting to like this combination of 1:1 and 1:6 size props and how well they fit together. Those...
Haunting Thoughts
I got the inspiration for a guillotine from a drawing that I cannot find anymore. I sketched this idea into my book more than half a year ago. Guillotine fitted perfectly to the words I had in mind and to this series. It was also perfect build as a 1:6 model. It’s a combination of...
Guillotine
I have done these images by myself but for this image, I needed help and my wife wrapped the tape around me. My son is moving and didn’t need these plates anymore so I had the final use for them in this image. Once again, falling to pieces. Once again, trying to pick them up....
Handle with Care
The first image from the second shoot and tenth in the series. Still, a lot of ideas left. I have been releasing these once a week and if I could do that for half a year that would be a nice goal. Currently, I greatly enjoy working on a longer project which I haven’t done...
The Kiss of Death
I used this protective plastic already in previous pig/horror images. It looked so good that I included it in this breakthrough idea too. Trapped inside the agony. Trapped inside the misery. I am a prisoner of my mind and I want to break free.
Breakthru
For this image, I used the coffin that I made earlier from XPS foam. I think these scale models fit quite nicely to the images like this. Real size coffin would have been expensive and hard to store. The serenity of the coffin, so alluring. Endless darkness, so forgiving.
Waiting for the Coffin
I wanted some extra protection for the tethering cable and found this old neck strap for a USB stick (I think). I glued it to a short USB cable that I have to use anyway since it has the right 90-degree angle. I need that so I can still use the L plate also in...
DIY Cable Relief
For this image, I made the “mental wheel” in roughly 1:6 scale. It’s made from cardboard, wood, bamboo sticks, popsicle sticks, XPS foam and inkjet print. Then I painted it to look quite rustic. How are you gonna feel today? Like spinning the wheel, you never know. Probably anything good though.    
Mental Wheel
Petri Damstén
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