![]() ![]() Especially smartphones – they have become “tools for life” which you use to handle everything. We might feel the devices haven’t changed so much in the past few years but when you really think about the functions, features, and services, it is a huge leap forward. The development and evolution have been so remarkable. The mobile device industry has evolved dramatically in the past 5 years or so. Now, I’m back in Finland and working at HMD Global HQ in Espoo. After graduating I ended up working in Asia for 8 years. When I turned 28, I packed my bags and went to the United States to get a master’s degree in Industrial Design. I studied product design in Finland and my first job was in a yacht company. Tell us what the journey has been like to get to where you are today… Now I am using the XR20 in the Ultra Blue color. Really loved that phone too – minimalistic design and a great camera. I have had many Nokia phones the latest one before the Android models was a white Lumia 1020. I just put the battery back in and it worked perfectly. It was so cool at the time :D I remember it dropped from my pocket when riding a motorcycle and we found it the next day wet in a ditch next to the road after a rain. “These paintings come from deep inside me, the burning light of feminine creation that is my own radiance.My first phone was a Nokia. In my glass renderings, I play with how light radiates through an object as a symbol of the warmth and illumination that we all seek to experience,” she said. “My animal portraits depict energy in a playful manner suggesting the superpowers we all hold within. “Through my art, I explore the vast subject of radiant energy as embodied by light, not only as the eye perceives it, but also the way the physical and spiritual bodies experience it.”īecause energy is so hard to portray, Mahoney said she uses several different subjects to illustrate it. “There is an element of spirituality that I am seeking in the darkness, a place where I open up and offer the world my Divine feminine energy,” she said. Mahoney said this is how she approached working on her latest series last winter - one small and luminous piece at a time, building on each interpretation of radiance to get to the next. I bring it forward, again and again, until one day the shroud of darkness begins to lift.” The process is slow and sometimes painful, digging for some small light to surface to the world, then going back in to find another source. “But I also turn inwards, searching deep within to find my inner light. During the darkest part of winter, I surround myself with light glowing lanterns and candles, glittery objects and Christmas lights,” Mahoney said. “I have always been sensitive to light, or more specifically, the lack of it. Mahoney’s show, "Radiance," runs through May 29 at Lakewood’s Next Gallery, 6851 West Colfax Ave., Unit B. In her new body of work, Mahoney explores light, and the magical qualities it possesses in a series of animal portraits. Tamara Mahoney, a Denver artist working in acrylics, mixed media and fiber said she lives and breathes color and texture. ![]()
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