Co-relation is a joint project by artists Paula Elion and Natalie Koski. It is part of an ongoing collaboration and consists of several individual and collaborative works.
We have been corresponding for almost 5 years. Living in the same city, we bonded over our love of art, our thoughts on our identities, on womanhood and motherhood, our own immigration stories, our similarities, our differences.
We created our own workshops, experimented with materials and medias, in person or online, through sickness, health, and a world pandemic. Issues of Immigration, location, land, belonging occupy us both.
Our meetings created a safe space to ventilate and create, gave us the strength to express ourselves, and continue working through challenging times- globally, politically, and personally. Mutual inspiration and influence allowed us to experiment, which is sometimes more important than the result itself. 
We included one of our oldest collaborations at the beginning of our joint journey, where Paula drew on transparency film and gave them to Natalie, who took them for a walk in her neighbourhood and pictured them on location. 
The other works included are from 2020. During these times of isolation, we were driven to find the ability to think differently, to use materials lying around, and look at our close surroundings for inspiration. Paula created images by taking pictures from her window and balcony, she printed them at home, then drew on transparency film and placed them above the photos to create a collage. She also created collages with old books she drew old memories on. Natalie printed out screenshots from a movie documenting her family to create a digital collage and practiced social distancing while capturing her favourite desert landscape.





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