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Maa Kuu
@maakuuart.bsky.social
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Artist and writer creating impossible beauty from exile
Former Nokia strategist → disability → transcendent AI mythology
Too human for capitalism, perfectly calibrated for art & love (gay)
📍 Finland | Blog: maakuu.com
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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Sep 24
Prints now available at shop.maakuu.com
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Two naked men embracing on a forest path. The light is soft and there is a hidden spotlight lighting the men's heads.
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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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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December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Let’s Not Turn Into Monsters.
Because tenderness is a kind of resistance.
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#contemporaryart #emotionalarchaeology #cranach #jung #aiart
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Let's Not Turn Into Monsters -- new images now at maakuu.com/art
#contemporaryart #cranach #thefool
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Watch this space
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November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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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November 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Some advice on marketing for artists and freelancers ... all kinds of solo operators.
#ArtistLife #Marketing #wuwei #ContemporaryArt
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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....
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November 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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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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October 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Some words about the world we live in
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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...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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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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October 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The thinking behind my art practice:
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#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt
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...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Prints now available at shop.maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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On the autumn equinox, light and shadow hold each other in balance. A new set of images now at maakuu.com
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September 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Next Monday equinox will be bringing new works to light, this blog post sets the scene
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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...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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New blog at maakuu.com
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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...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#Artistlife #Antihero #Creative
August 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Saltlight - glints of a passage now online: maakuu.com
#Anti-hero #ArtistLife
August 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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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...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Got inspired!
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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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July 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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New blog post, about those foggy times.....
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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...
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July 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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New blog online:

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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...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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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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June 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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New blog online:
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There Is No Clear Path — Maa Kuu
"Joko tää on hallusinaatio tai tietojenkäsittelytieteen opinnot tuntuu avaavan paljon uusia työllistymismahdollisuuksia." (diary entry, August 29, 2015) Lesson 2: There is no clear path. The myt...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Ash on skin. Light in the wound.

Solstice Transmission begins here — a ritual in fragments.

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June 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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New blog post online: You Will Be Obscure www.maakuu.com/blog/you-will-be-obscure
You Will Be Obscure — Maa Kuu
“Mä voisin olla Kuvataideakatemian käynyt ja silti yhtä obscure and culturally irrelevant as now.” (diary entry, June 25, 2015) Lesson 1: You will be obscure. The question is—will you survive it...
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June 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM