Photo: MoA 2006

Photo: Gabriel Gonzales

Photo: Gabriel Gonzales

Photo: Gabriel Gonzales

Henna Aho

Art Education
1977, Finland
Sandplay Together. Creating Narratives in Sand
In–between

Intuitive sandplay is an in–between–process for dialogue of two separate persons. Silent play connects to basic questions of dialogical philosophy; how I can meet Thou.

Let’s sandplay, together?

Odysseus: Sandplay is serious play with objects that the ego loves.
Hermes: It’s an in–between–space connecting one’s inner and outer reality. My truth and yours.
Abraham: From mercy.
Without intention.
Without any desire.

Biography

Henna Aho works with interactive and dialogic art, focusing on interpersonal communication between two people. She uses artistic and educational methods to search for tools with which to encounter and accept Otherness.
Aho works as project coordinator and senior instructor in the Hokka and Taideterho art camp organisations in Turku. The camps are an experimental initiative for working with children and young people, to explore and develop dialogic processes.
Aho graduated from the Turku Arts Academy in 2002. In spring 2006 she will graduate as an art educator from the University of Art and Design Helsinki. She has previously studied art education at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences and the University of Helsinki. She lives and works full–time in Helsinki, but travels abroad frequently.

Contact:

+358 41 544 6269
haho(at)uiah.fi

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Other Masters in this theme:
Kirsi Andersson | Liina Blom | Jarno Ekström | Maja Gecic | Jussi Kaakinen | Nina Rantala