In her art, Aliina explores the tension between control and letting go; clashing colors and themes of beauty and struggle. The portrayal of these feelings often reflects brightly colored nature, trees, birds, flowers, with the juxtaposition of darkness and depth. She is continuously striving to show the reality that nature is a cycle of life and death; light and dark - and she is nature on this journey to presence.

She works within many styles and uses a variety of mediums on mostly two-dimensional surfaces. Though, she is enlivened when nature becomes her canvas. She often finds herself playing at the beach or in the woods making mandalas or patterning rocks. When she paints, she likes to paint fast, as she embraces her need to move often. Adding layers of paint in messy, colorful strokes; sometimes painting on the backside of watercolor paper, over previously used canvas, sometimes using leftover paint from her son’s projects, taking breaks for chores, for perspective. Aliina plays with both deep introspection and playful abstraction. Her painting moves her to accept that her life is never what she expected, her path, no matter how chaotic, overburdened, or joyous it may be in that moment.