Johanna Kurpat

Snow & Ice Sculpting

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Snow & Ice Sculpting at Arctic Snow Hotel in Lehtojärvi

In December 2019 I participated in a snow and ice sculpting training at the Arctic Snow Hotel in Lehtojärvi, Lapland. Here are some pictures of the results – it was a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to create more snow and ice sculptures.

• Client: Portfolio Sample
• Date: 2019-12-13
• Category: Sculpture

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Diversity of Snow

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Acrylic Painting

Impressions of a winter tour I made in 2013 in Swedish Lapland (Padjelantaleden) together with my friend Jonas. Two snow situations are visualized in two paintings.

In the paintings I wanted to visualize the feeling of a certain situation in which the weather conditions were extreme. During the winter tour a snow storm and very low freezing temperatures on a mountain plateau forced us to overnight in a snow shelter we built up ourselves. Impressed by the snow I wanted to show how snow can be danger and savior at the same time. Furthermore I wanted to show the diversity of snow. There are dangerous things about snow like for example a snow storm, strong freezing temperatures and whiteout and there are some impressively helpful things about snow like for example you can melt snow to have drinking water and prepare food or you can build up a snow cave which can be a good shelter and protect you.

• Client: Portfolio Sample
• Date: 2018-12-31
• Category: Acrylic Painting

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Bees

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Acrylic Painting & Photography

• Client: Portfolio Sample
• Date: 2019-04-17
• Category: Acrylic Painting & Photography

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Book Illustration

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• Client: Portfolio Sample
• Date: 2018-08-20
• Category: Design & Illustration

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Human body structures

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Macro photography with prepared vegetables, fruits and plants

Microscopic enlargements are often necessary to study interesting structures of the human body. I created a fascinating comparison between human body structures and structures of plants, vegetables and fruits.

Photographs of plants, vegetables and fruits are used to explore similarities with human organ structures. I developed a technique in which plants, vegetables and fruits are placed on a glass plate and are illuminated from below with an extremely bright lamp. This technique creates unique images and emphasizes the beauty of the structures.

• Client: Münster School of Design
• Date: 2014-04-19
• Category: Photography

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Linoprint

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Hand printed t-shirts - I made linocuts and printed them directly on t-shirts using textile paint.

With linoprints I create unique t-shirt designs which have a nice used look.

Each print result is unique!

• Client: DaWanda
• Date: 2018-02-05
• Category: T-Shirt Design

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Party Polaroid

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First prize German Youth Photography Award 2016 (Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 2016)

How to make the pub atmosphere visible? In a unique way these Polaroids are illustrating what was going on in the pub. The party evening is reflected in the pictures. The Polaroids were placed in different areas of the pub and were part of the evening. One Polaroid was placed on the dance floor, lying there for the rest of the night. Other pictures were placed in the ashtray or at the toilet door. I used a Polaroid 600 to take the pictures in the pub at the same evening and then placed them at different areas of the pub. After the placement I left the pictures alone for the rest of the evening. While I was celebrating with my friends, a lot of people interacted with the pictures. The pictures are snapshots, moments of a party and they are showing traces of a wild party evening at the pub.

I made a reproduction of the original polaroids which have all the traces of the party on it. So that it is possible to see these traces in large format and in detail.

Polaroid 600 camera, Reproduction NIKON D80, location “Bullenkopp” in Münster

• Client: Münster School of Design
• Date: 2013-12-01
• Category: Experimental analog photography

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Travel photography

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Travel photography – Hiking adventures and camping in the wilderness

Pictures of landscapes, animals and moments in the wild nature

Outdoor and wildlife photography

• Client: Portfolio Sample
• Date: 2015-09-30
• Category: Photography

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Music und emotions

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An animated movie explains what happens in the human body and especially in the brain when we listen to music. The subject is very complex, because the music perception is learned by listening experience in everyday life, is dependent on culture and individual musical preferences.

Headphones visualize the human reaction to music without showing the person directly. Music, explanation and reaction are in focus. Transparency gradient on a white background creates a mysterious, foggy atmosphere. The journey continues deep into the brain. The project has exciting contrasts - Schematic representations of the brain combined with emotional textures and snapshots. An emotional soundtrack interleaves with explanations by a narrator.

Narrator - Joris Schwarz, Music – Jan Andrees

Research – Stefan Koelsch und Erich Schröger „Neurowissenschaftliche Grundlagen der Musikverarbeitung“, Manfred Spitzer „Musik im Kopf“, Eckart Altenmüller - Zeitschrift für Audiologie „Starke Emotionen und Gänsehaut beim Musikhören“, Daniel J. Levitin „Der Musik-Instinkt“

• Client: Münster School of Design
• Date: 2015-07-15
• Category: Animation

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