Nov 18
2019 Recycled water pipes, string.100 x 100 cm, 130 x 130 cm “Himmeli” is a traditional Finnish mobile decoration made from straws. It can be simple or rather complex, but usually utilizes basic diamond shapes. Himmelis are often associated with Christmas decocations. In my 2019 work Himmeli I played with size and made simple himmelis …
Jul 24
2019 Wood.65 x 65 x 150 cm. Why is it, that it always tend to be small men who are most eager to reach for the highest of seats? Yes, those seats they are most unsuitable to sit on. Exhibited at:Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, TurkuStockfors Art Fair, Stockfors, Pyhtää
Jul 18
2019 Recycled water pipes, string, lights, motion sensor.Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Himmel is German for Heaven, also a word play with the Finnish term “himmeli” translating into a hanging straw ornament. For art association ITU’s 2019 summer exhibition called “Lovers of * the Milky Way” I made two large-scale versions of …
Jul 17
2019 Recycled fabric, wadding and wood.Life sized. The Denialist is the current ways of humanity personified. They are hungrily eating, not facing the fact about how this is also destroying themself. Exhibited at:Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, TurkuStockfors Art Fair, Stockfors, Pyhtää
Jun 24
2019 By Art collective VIRASTO fence gauze, fence posts, plywood 200 x 500 cm Exhibited at Kotka ART, Kotka
Jun 24
2019 Stickers around town, with qr-code (and html address) leading to randomly played sound files. 4 x ~ 3 min long tracks. I asked myself: What if you replaced the actual soundscape of your location to something completely different? Would you see the world differently as well? Portable Soundscapes attempts to answer these questions. The …
Jun 18
2019 Plaster, acrylic paint, glitter glue, sand.Variable size, exhibited as ~ 5-40 x 220 cm. Footprints on sand. Somebody had walked here, barefoot, on tip-toes. It was so long ago, that the footprints have turned to stone and have the bright colours of happy memories. Exhibited at Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, Turku.
May 24
2019 Bronze, apple tree roots, plaster.51 x 45 x 40 cm I cast my dear departed grandparents’ false teeth in bronze and arranged them according to a portrait of my grandparents smiling, faces close, on the roots of a felled apple tree.
May 17
2019 Burlap, dirt, ryegrass, vat.Life-sized (toddler). Originally a course project to study sculptures in four dimension – space and time – Dirt Boi turned into a kind of pet while sitting on a busy hallway. Later on, Dirt Boi moved to the countryside to live with us and lived through the summer. Being made from …
