Archive

While visual art and games will always have a special place in my heart, I have come to realize that my main passion lies in sharing about, and guiding, transformative processes.

So these days, my visuals mainly play a supportive role for my stories and educational materials. And my understanding of game design is being put to use in my guidance work (and in designing activities with my kids...)

Still, there's some cool artworks that I've created over the years. Out of respect for these creations I wanted to create this space for them. You can browse different categories below.

Acrylic paintings on
wooden boards

Creature illustrations and collages

Aesthetic experiences in 3D-spaces

As a teenager, my notebook was a means for survival. It helped transmute my turbulent emotions into disturbing creatures. And later, at transformational points in my life, it is the notebook I go to when I need to process experiental shifts and emotional storms. As a university lecturer, it was my one-hour lunch break that gave me a reprieve from all the energies I experienced with students and colleagues. I would sit on the couch in the lunch room, doodling away at my creatures.

Creature
Illustrations

Forest of Meaning
Paintings

In the year that I turned 31, I collected the paintings that I had created in my late 20's and early 30's into one collection, titled Forest of Meaning. The paintings were created in the evenings during the years when I worked as a university lecturer; they were a well-needed physical anchor into my own creativity, in days that were spent by the computer or in front of the students, in teaching Media Technology.

Seen in another light, I feel like these paintings anchored me more to the physical, to the nature around me. In their mix of acrylics and wooden materials (branches, bark) that I picked in areas where trees had been felled, I feel that these paintings were my tribute to the forests that grounded me and helped me through the inner (and outer) shifts I experienced in my late 20's.

For now, my prototypes get to rest in the archives. If you want to play them, you can download the playable prototypes for free on minnamari.itch.io. Or just look at the screenshots below.

Ever since I played the art game The Path by Tale of Tales, I wanted to learn how to use the games medium for creating aesthetic experiences. This was actually my main reason for studying Media Art and Informatics. And I did achieve that goal, through the creation of my game prototypes, and even teaching students how to make games.

But after that, I have not felt a pull towards making games. In shifting back to storytelling, I realized that I can share my stories more directly, just by writing and podcasting. So far, I have not felt that my stories have needed an interactive medium. But who knows what the future holds...

Game prototypes