Current, on the process
The tapestries in the pictures above are 40 cm x 45 cm in size. They are from 2026 and woven with plantbased dyed wool yarns and recycled yarns.
The work in the adjacent image dates from 2026. The lower section is made of recycled silk, while the upper part was folded by Jari Haavikko from the paper lining of a banana box. It is painted with plant-based dyes.
Some of the next images are from a journey to Belgium to see Hans Arp’s and Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s exhibition in October 2024. Our accommodation was in Antwerp. We walked around the city and along the river Scheldt. I visited the book fair at Royal Academy of Fine Arts and bought photographs, whose origin is mysterious. An unknown photographer, says the seller. For me they work as a reminder of a close connection of fabric and human being, a sense of touch and fragility. They are also a bridge between Sophie Taeuber Arp’s textile works and my wish to use fabric and thread for my own art works.
I think of two words: affordance and serendipity. The image combinations are like my diary entries how to formulate the process. The railwaystation, the river and the skies I photographed in Antwerp, the other photographs have their mysterious origin.
Through the video work Kirkkaan päivän rakennelma I explore the idea of serendipity, of certainty and of hesitation.