Anna Parri Arts

04/09/2026

29/08/2026

LAKE 2.

watercolour

A4

SOLD

29/08/2026

LAKE 1.

15€

watercolour

15€

29/08/2026

MEMENTO MORI

15€

watercolour and marker

A4

09/08/2026

09/08/2026

Mummotunneli

07/08/2026

Tapahtumien yö 6.8.2026


Tampere

06/07/2026

color theory

13/06/2026

Pictures by Arto Ilkka Jalonen

"Confessions of a confident girl"

I like modeling.
I love painting.
I wanted to try do full-body painting on myself and ask someone to capture it.
So I did.
I spent 5 hours painting myself.

I was super excited.

We met with photographers and started shooting. Bypasssers were looking at us in wonder and smiled. It's not everyday you see someone covered in paint.
I felt happy and confident. The photographer was very friendly and I felt relaxed and beautiful.

I couldn't wait to see the pictures!!
It's been a while since someone took pictures of me and I was very proud of my painting.

Photographer sent me these pictures the very next day. I was super excited.

Then I opened the folder and started to go through them.
Horror. Loathing. Disgusting.

"You fat piece of s**t".

"What were you thinking - painting yourself like a clown, dressing up in this tiny shirt and shorts and going outside like that".

"and wasting someone's time to capture this horror..."

"Idiot"

Nope. This wasn't the note from the photographer attached to the pictures.
It was my very own mind telling me these things.

"I can't post this"

"I can't believe I spent all that time and colours on this"

"I should always paint someone else"

"And I seriously need to loose weight"

I tried to find some pictures that I liked but it seemed almost impossible. Even the close ups seemed horrendous and I hated my face as much as my body.

I chose only 4 pictures that I could look at.

It's funny how twisted the mind can get.
I have no idea why these are the things that seem to matter enough to make a person feel horrible about themselves.

We're only here for a nano-second in the big scale.

F**k insecurities.

F**k beauty standards.

F**k patriarchy and consumerism for forcing those ideals on us.

F**k being shallow.

There's more to life than appearance.