Maa Kuu

A rebel in tattered cloak looking at distant corporate city hell.

Too Human for Capitalism rerun:
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#anticapitalism #artlife

My first sculpture

New blog post -- it's your revolution!
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Hot club remixes on the darkest day of the year! Welcome!
#SecondLife

Two naked men embracing on a forest path. The light is soft and there is a hidden spotlight lighting the men's heads.

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#contemporaryart #wip #malenudes

I rebuilt my website completely.
The new maakuu.com is darker, more experimental, and intentionally unfinished.
I want the site to reflect a living practice -- and the new philosophy is discussed in this blog post. And you can comment!
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Thanks!

ou jea. awesome!

Let’s Not Turn Into Monsters.
Because tenderness is a kind of resistance.
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#contemporaryart #emotionalarchaeology #cranach #jung #aiart

Let's Not Turn Into Monsters -- new images now at maakuu.com/art
#contemporaryart #cranach #thefool

Watch this space
#contemporaryart #emotionalarchaeology #cranach #thefool

Spring Fever — Maa Kuu These from my 2016 April-May diary: 24.4.2016 Mut olettaen et lopetan tän vitun röökaamisen niin joku liikuntamuoto pitäis kehittää. Kävelylenkit ehkä. Sali ehkä. Bodypump kenties. Mites se jooga....

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Wu Wei Marketing — Maa Kuu There was a moment in October when I looked at the plans I had written for myself (the “content calendar,” the collaboration sprints, the ten evergreen posts) and felt a quiet revolt rising inside me....

Some advice on marketing for artists and freelancers ... all kinds of solo operators.
#ArtistLife #Marketing #wuwei #ContemporaryArt
www.maakuu.com/blog/wu-wei-marketing

Logic and Skill — Maa Kuu There’s a logic that lives under the chaos. A slow, stubborn rhythm that ties one attempt to the next, like footsteps across an invisible bridge. When I look back, the path almost makes sense — though...

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#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt

The Struggle — Maa Kuu As Keanu Reeves said, we are not struggling with depression, we are struggling with the world we live in. And it's inevitable.  The very moment you cease to buy into hustle culture - “my 5 to 9...

Some words about the world we live in
www.maakuu.com/blog/the-struggle
#ArtistLife #Capitalism #Depression

Future Plans and the Limits of Time — Maa Kuu The future has always been a horizon I look toward with both longing and caution. Plans are fragile things. They bend under pressure, collapse under circumstance, and sometimes dissolve into nothing a...

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Works. Very 2025

Might lead to something interesting. Not gonna win a Grammy I'm afraid :)

Impossible Beauty from Exile — Maa Kuu I call my practice emotional archaeology. The works I make are excavations — layers of feeling, fragments of memory, pieces of a life that has been broken and remade. I bend AI into a role it wasn’t d...

The thinking behind my art practice:
www.maakuu.com/blog/impossi...
#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt

Prints now available at shop.maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu

On the autumn equinox, light and shadow hold each other in balance. A new set of images now at maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu

Looking for Cy Twombly — Maa Kuu Rivkin writes in his excellent Cy Twombly biography: ‘ “A Twombly looks,” writes one critic, “the way thinking sometimes feels.” And that is Twombly’s gift — the bewildering slipstream between thinki...

Next Monday equinox will be bringing new works to light, this blog post sets the scene
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First steps at Art School Maa — Maa Kuu "Maan kurssi alkaa huomenna ja mulla on tooodella huonot vibat siitä." (31st Jan 2016) (The course at Maa starts tomorrow and I have reeeeally bad vibes about it.) The night before my first sessi...

New blog at maakuu.com
#ArtistLife
#ArtSchool

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#Artistlife #Antihero #Creative

Saltlight - glints of a passage now online: maakuu.com
#Anti-hero #ArtistLife

Too Human for Capitalism — Maa Kuu “A bit of grandiose delusional thinking takes one a long way.” The line appears in a coffee-shop diary scrawl dated 18 November 2015. Our anti-hero—call him the Protomutant—has already missed the mo...

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#ArtistLife #AntiCapitalism #Protomutant #Antihero

Too Human for Capitalism — Maa Kuu “A bit of grandiose delusional thinking takes one a long way.” The line appears in a coffee-shop diary scrawl dated 18 November 2015. Our anti-hero—call him the Protomutant—has already missed the mo...

Got inspired!
www.maakuu.com/blog/too-human-for-capitalism

You Do Not Have to Know Yet — Maa Kuu "Tilapäinen epävarmuus? Prosessin luonne? Etsikkoaika?" (entry, November 12, 2015) Lesson 4: You do not have to know yet. In fact, not-knowing is part of the work. In late 2015, I thought I w...

New blog post, about those foggy times.....
www.maakuu.com/blog/you-do-not-have-to-know-yet

Begin Before You Believe — Maa Kuu “Ehkä mä olen vaan kuntoutuva opiskelija. Ja taiteilija-identiteetti on deluusiota, jäänteitä suuruudenhullusta ‘minun on oltava joku’ -tarpeesta.” (entry, November 9, 2015) Lesson 3: Begin bef...

New blog online:

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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.

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