Hugo Pellinen is a visual artist and writer. His creative projects take images and ideas out of traditional contexts and ask audiences to make new meanings.  His recent explorations include: The Type Liberation Project (letterpress projects from reclaimed type), The Essex Natural History and Typing Club (projects involving text and natural material), La Mora (stories from the heteroglossia of New Mexico), and Earth Narratives (exploring ways to let our planet tell stories).
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Hugo shares studio workspace at The Agency in Beverly, Massachusetts. This workspace creates opportunities for the artists involved with The Velvet Pelican Projects, The Two Hugos Writers’ Group, and Olfactory Press to share, rhizomatically, inspirations and ideas.

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Swidden

Mistranslations
The mistranslation exists everywhere a text exists.  The poems that Hugo has been mistranslating recently come from Finland and Japan.  In part, the difference between these two languages and the Indo-European languages creates the potential to find more divergent meanings in the translations. In his work, he credits the source of the original material but he makes no claim that what he presents as a translation has anything at all to do with intention of that original text.

Zen Koans
Jyrki Pellinen (no relation)
Edith Södergran