Saarinen is a Visual artist, Master of Fine Arts and Culture. Her works are acrylic paintings, small objects and performance. She has also done socially engaged projects and community art.
In her work she explores creative interplay of tradition and modernity as well as myth and reality. Finnish folklore is a core of her visual language and it expands to our days with colors, glitters and shimmers. Mystisism, traditions , and current cultural phenomena are woven into complex narratives about the connection and behavior of human and other species.
Humans do not appear directly in her paintings, drawings and objects but they are catalysts, motivation in the visual events. This indirect presence of humans underscores the essential role that cultural traditions and collective myths play in our modern reality.
