My artistic life began with sound in 2003. I began by recording my source material at various locations and manipulate it digitally into a new, often unrecognizable form, blending them with more traditional forms of music making. Gradually, other forms of expressing myself artistically crept into my life. First photography for creating my own album covers. Then sculpting and installation. My schooling includes graduating as Visual artist from Turku University of Applied Sciences’s Art Academy, become BA in Fine arts in 2020. In 2010 I graduated from Forssa Vocational School as artisan of ceramics.
As my materials, I use whatever I get my hands on. Often they are found materials, something discarded, upcycling them into art.
My works are studies on themes left hidden, sub-surface, kept silent about, discarded, abandoned and forgotten in what is called normal, everyday life. I ponder the formation of identities, personalities and stereotypes; the manysidedness of an individual and the uniformity of the masses. I examine how a creation devoid of features can express emotions, even though features associated with them are absent. I’m enthralled by the commonalities between humanity and mechanics. I get inspired by conversations witnessed by chance; everyday experiences normally drowned out by the hubbub of life and thus gone unnoticed; small details in my surroundings – the weather-worn beauty of an old building or a long dead tree, rust and crumbled tile. I find myself marveling at the atmospheres of disused and deteriorating industrial sites, finding beauty in rust and landscapes in oil spills.
In my artistic work, I cut up and mash my source materials and ideas into their elements and re-form them into something new. Something still holding the echo of their origins, but in a new context. People have called my works reflections of something sinister and dark. However, it remains open, if this is telling more about my subconscious, or that of the viewers’ – maybe a bit of them both.