Current

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. One image is what I photographed in Antwerp, the second has its mysterious origin and third one is taken in my studio space in September 2025 by Jari Haavikko.