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The Mystery of the Universe

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So i'v been working the last 6 weeks on this piece. It's my art work diploma (Don't really know how to translate it in English).  The basic idea of diploma is that there is a course in our school where you are given a list of different topics  to choose from. Each topic has its own text that explains the given task and the criteria of evaluations. Also you have to write a portfolio that contains pictures and descriptions of the different stages of your work's development and such. When both the work and the portfolio are ready (before the deadline), two judges will give you a grade on 0-5, five meaning excellent. This diploma work and the points you got can be then used for applying to a universities (usually universities that teach art).  

I chose the topic The Universe. In short words, in this task you had to find out about the different world creation myths in cultures and study their diversity and how the creation of everything has baffled and fascinated the human kind threw the ages. 

As many of you might (or might not know), I'm from Finland and we have a very enthralling national epic called the Kalevala. It's a composition of old Finnish poems and folk lure and it has a very peculiar world origin story so I chose it for my basis.

The left hand side represents the old world origin story from Kalevala and it's painted in a more old fashioned way. The right hand side represents the big bang theory (the present understanding of how the universe has formed). The character in the middle is Väinämöinen, one of the protagonist in Kalevala. He is ascending form the old world origin myth and trying to grasp the knowledge of today's understanding. This represents the desire of the human kind to explain how the world and the universe came to be and the fascination we have towards it.  

Hope you understood what I was trying to say. I haven't got my grade yet but i'll sure post it here when i get it. Hope you enjoy! :D (and sorry if there are grammar errors)

UPDATE: I got full score 5/5! :D
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Full score was definitely earned for this one!