Vector Meditation Ongoing modular series A surreal vector-based body of work that expands into prints, objects, murals and site-specific installations.
Lost in Connection Immersive site-specific installation, 2025 A liminal installation built from the modular visual language of Vector Meditation.
Mermaid Slaughterhouse Collective works Collective practice processing natural materials such as fish leather and willow through contemporary art and digital tools.
Stairway to Home I–III Commissioned mural series, 2025 Vector-based stencil murals painted by hand with self-mixed leftover paints for a residential staircase environment.
Portal of Dataomes Environmental installation, 2024 Site-specific installation exploring non-genetic information and the symbiosis of humanity, technology and nature.
Digital & Stage Design Patterns, platforms and spatial applications A selection of visual systems applied across digital platforms, motion, graphic work and stage environments.

VV-machine

Veera Vartiainen, working under the name VV-machine, is a Helsinki-based artist whose practice moves between surreal vector systems, physical materials and site-specific installations.

Her work combines digital methods with recycled, ecological and natural materials to create pieces that shift between image, object and environment. A recurring foundation in her practice is the ongoing series Vector Meditation, from which she has developed editions, murals and installations in different contexts.

Her projects often explore the relationship between technological imagery, embodied experience and the material world through a modular visual language that continues to transform across formats.

Selected contexts

Purkutaide 2025
Solstice Festival 2024
Aava 2025
Kosmos Festival
Yö Galleria
Kunsthaus Jägermeister

Vector Meditation Ongoing modular series

2016 – ongoing

“Vector Meditation” springs from a surreal, ever-evolving imagery that unfolds across multiple series’, each grounded in six primary artworks that serve as core points. The series employs a pop art- influenced process of replicating designs in various colors, sizes, and materials, enabled by vector technology, merging digital methods with recycled materials. By contrasting harmony and chaos, “Vector Meditation” reveals the intimate and infinite layers of our shared subliminal reality.

Works from the series have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Finland, and the visual language has also developed into site-specific installations and applied collaborations.

Scalable Vector art In different shapes, colours and sizes Smaller custom shaped artworks Hand drawn original Each Primary Artwork consists of Limited Edition of 15 Variations High-definition Vector Art. Hand-mounted artwork on recycled plywood, sealed with eco-branded resin, and finished with hand-painted details making each piece is truly one-of-a-kind

What does “edition” mean?

A limited edition in art is a limited series of reproductions, each uniquely numbered. From the Vector Meditation series you can order an artwork with your preferred size, color and shape. Sizes range up to a maximum of 1.5 meters in width or height for larger pieces and up to 0.5 meters for smaller ones. Each piece differs a little from the digital model shown in this catalogue. Each piece is numbered, signed and ready to hang

Core Pieces

6. Nautilustic Tentacoral

The meditative state between deep sea and outer space.

5. Infinity

A reflection doesn’t see itself; it never really knows what it looks like from the other side.

4. Forever isn’t Endless After All

The continuation of endless beginnings is an eternal loop of love and life.

3. Tripolarity

Our present reality entangles itself in three parts: what was, what is, and what will be, but mostly in between.

2. Originating

When the elephant in the room is oversharing, listen to it.

1. Eaglelity

Happy are those who have overcome their inner eagles (egos) and found balance within a distorted yin and yang.

Eggshibition

A group of smaller works derived from the larger Vector Meditation pieces.

The works continue the same modular visual language in a more condensed format, allowing variation, repetition and material translation to operate at a different scale.

Site-specific Installations from the series

Totemic Ambidextral Alien

A spatial extension of the Vector Meditation language, where symmetry, duality and distortion are embodied in a totemic form.

The work translates the modular visual system into a physical structure, balancing between symbolic figure and abstract organism.

Lost in Connection

Forever isnt endless after all - Sketch stage

Forever isnt endless after all - Vector stage

Forever isnt endless after all - Texture stage

Forever isnt endless after all - Blue version

Process

A spatial extension of the Vector Meditation language, where symmetry, duality and distortion are embodied in a totemic form.

The work translates the modular visual system into a physical structure, balancing between symbolic figure and abstract organism.

Lost in Connection

Supported by Taike

Lost in Connection Site-specific immersive installation

Purkutaide 2025 – Parempi Maailma

An immersive, site-specific multimedia installation created for the Purkutaide 2025 Parempi Maailma exhibition. The work places the viewer in a liminal state, in a moment just before and immediately after an imagined explosion.

The starting point is the crisis of binary thinking: opposites that could complement one another instead turn against each other. The installation blurs the boundaries of time and reality while exploring the relationship between digital imagery and the material environment.

The work is based on the modular visual language of the Vector Meditation series.

Details

Year: 2025
Size: approx. 5 m²
Materials and techniques: vector art, animation, Pepper’s Ghost hologram, Google Forms, laser cutting, wall paint, recycled electronics, found materials, recycled paints, recycled plywood, thin plywood

Portal of Dataomes Site-specific environmental installation

2024

Portal of Dataomes is a site-specific environmental installation exploring the non-genetic information carried within us and its connection to the surrounding world.

The work moves between the cosmic and the earthly, opening a visual portal through which the viewer can reflect on the intertwined relationship between humanity, technology and nature.

The installation was commissioned by Kunsthaus Jägermeister for Solstice Festival 2024 and was also shown at Aava in 2025.

Materials and techniques: natural pigments, thin plywood, jute rope, vector art and laser cutting.

Stairway to Home I–III Commissioned mural series

2025

Stairway to Home I–III is a three-part mural commission for the stairwells of Asunto Oy Vesilinnankatu 25.

The works were designed in response to the client’s wishes, reflecting the specific character and historical context of the Alppila area, the building’s 1930s architecture and the colour palette of the stairwells.

The designs were first developed digitally as vector art, after which stencils were produced and the final works were painted by hand using self-mixed leftover paints.

Materials and techniques: leftover paint, natural pigments, cardboard, vector art and laser cutting.

Mermaid Slaughterhouse Commissioned mural series

2025

Mermaid Slaughterhouse is an art collective formed by Mira Niittymäki, Loviisa Lassila and VV-machine. The collective works to dismantle stereotypes related to femininity and traditional crafts through contemporary art.

Their practice highlights passion, cultural creativity, and holistic interpretations of nature, drawing connections between ancient mythology, contemporary art, and science. Mermaid Slaughterhouse works with natural materials traditionally associated with craft, such as fish leather and willow, and brings them into modern contexts using digital tools like laser cutting.

The collective unapologetically elevates traditional craft materials into contemporary art, while exploring the communal nature of making. Their work is grounded in grassroots feminism and ecological thinking, where the personal is understood as political.

Syli (Hug)

A site-specific, multidisciplinary installation combining visual art and performance. The work explores the microscopic layers of the forest biosphere and the smallness of the individual within the networks of plants and fungi.

The installation also functions as a stage for Loviisa Lassila’s performance, where her alter ego Polina Wolfgang tells the story of a wolf child.

Materials: fish leather, clay paint, birch plywood

Virta (Flow)

Virta examines and visualizes the structures and details of a lake ecosystem, from its deepest layers to the whole. The work merges scientific and mythological imagery into a unified visual language.

Materials: fish leather, clay paint, natural pigments, willow, red clay, fish trap, birch plywood

Digital & Concept & Stage Design UI, animation, graphic systems and stage applications

A selection of projects where digital visual language expands into motion, stage, public space and applied graphic work.

Story Maps

UI-design, animation and graphic design for interactive cartographic storytelling.

This work combines navigation, moving image and illustration into spatial digital experiences that guide the viewer through layered information.

Kontula Electronic X Stoa

Stage design and production for a live event environment.

This project connects digital planning and visual thinking with physical staging, atmosphere and audience-facing spatial design.

QRFT Gallery - Poormans NFT

Digital streetart project questioning NFT-techology, exploring how graphic work can exist in public space and circulate through digital interfaces.

The project invites everyone to right click save themselves a bad quality copy of a jpg.

Seam

Visual concept and graphic guidelines developed as part of a broader identity and motion language.

The project moves between graphic structure, colour logic and animated fragments, showing how a visual system can extend across formats.

VV-machine

Selected contexts

Vector Meditation Ongoing modular series

What does “edition” mean?

Core Pieces

6. Nautilustic Tentacoral

5. Infinity

4. Forever isn’t Endless After All

3. Tripolarity

2. Originating

1. Eaglelity

Eggshibition

Site-specific Installations from the series

Totemic Ambidextral Alien

Lost in Connection

Process

Lost in Connection

Lost in Connection Site-specific immersive installation

Details

Portal of Dataomes Site-specific environmental installation

Stairway to Home I–III Commissioned mural series

Mermaid Slaughterhouse Commissioned mural series

Syli (Hug)

Virta (Flow)

Digital & Concept & Stage Design UI, animation, graphic systems and stage applications

Story Maps

Kontula Electronic X Stoa

QRFT Gallery - Poormans NFT

Seam

Graphic design and illustrations