Saturday, 6:50am. Breakfast on the verandah while the bedroom is full of sleep. Coffee, dark bread, cheese and fresh tomatoes. Today's plan: going to the market place for fish, returning gardening books to the library, buying an inflatable pool for Aatto, planning a trip to Denmark.

Let's try something different: a new image every week. Here's a photo taken in our kitchen yesterday.

My work is currently on show in Turku Art Museum, Finland:

TURHAN TÄRKEYS / FUTILE MATTERS
curated by Mia Haltia
5th May - 6th September

For more info, please click on the following link:
Turku Art Museum

My new project, H. Kandel's Toys, Silhouettes Weeping in the Night, is currently featured in:

Plastic Crystal

Ars Aarras
Sairaalakatu 11
Uusikaupunki, Finland
Opening hours: 4th June-30th August 2009 Tue-Fri 11-5pm Sat-Sun 12-4pm

All the works in the show are made of plastic, and the focus is on recycling. I painted doll portraits on plastic lids, and the title refers to Kristallnacht. More images will follow later.

work in progress

synnynnäinen veripahka



she was so beautiful and then she died

pregnancy sketchbook

entry by invitation only

mullin mallin

My work is currently featured on ruby mag.

DRAWING EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO

My drawings are currently on show in Gescheidle gallery, Chicago. The show is called "le papier (part) deux". Here is the gallery's website: www.gescheidle.com

"And suddenly he realised he had become
a coward.
Nobody could help him. He didn't need any help.
He wanted his courage back, but there it was,
flying high above the ochre fields,
looking at the clouds and smiling."

I made a small version of the giraffe, just to see how to adjust the pattern. The final creature will have bigger feet and a thinner neck. I will also add ears.

the unruly lady

Layer five

Layer four

The faces are almost ready now. They have between six and eight layers of paint each, and I am going to design bodies for them today.

I don't enjoy writing about my work online, so I will stop it after finishing these paintings. To me, keeping an online blog is almost like a really awkward way of keeping a diary. I don't want to write anything personal, yet during the actual process of painting, I don't have anything impersonal to write.

After finishing these paintings, I will include only images and short captions of text in the blog. Hopefully that'll work better.

Layer three

Layer two

Layer one