There's a week left of Cover-ups and teardowns at Joensuu! Boy, time sure flies past real quick, don't it?

You have posisbly met "Moody denim blues" in my previous exhibitions, but what about their little "offspings", "Blues I-IV"?

The "Blues" tablets are what you might've seen me do with ceramics previously: engraved ceramic tablets, given a color wash and glazed — usually depicting skulls (what a surprise, I know).
I used to draw a lot in my early artistic days, but slowly started doing it less (because I didn't get exhibitions or much sales with them) and then I got in to the textile-business. Ceramics and engravings have been a nice venue to re-light my doodling passion 😊

(also, I once saw smaller works being presented like this, on the sides of pedestals, so I totally stole that idea. Can't remember from who though 🙈🙇)

Cover-ups & teardowns
Taidekeskus Ahjo, Joensuu
Kytö/Liekki
10.9.-28.9.

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Cover-ups & teardowns is (as far as I know) still at Taidekeskus Ahjo!

The whole main idea behind this exhibition was to pair up my previous textile pieces with newer ceramics experiments that somewhat reflect the shapes of the actual skulls that I've covered up. "Sharp eyes", 2025, embodies this idea quite well.

I made "My Fucking eyes!" and "Not much behind the eyes", 2025, as a pair of textile sculptures, playing with the contrasts of "dark textiles vs reflective surfaces" and "soft vs sharp". "Sharp eyes" was a fun addition for the pair, having very sharp and reflective (even with black clay) features. And I am quite pleased how relatively realistic the skull and horn shapes ended up. Might still need to work on my glaze 🤔


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A lovely little outing today at the center and Ullanlinna. The Design Museum had a very impressive exhibition of Maija Lavonen, a grand old lady of Finnish textile art. It was very impressive, I liked it a lot. I love how textile art has made a comeback to the art scene. 10 years ago, it was seen as an uninteresting old ladies' boring crafty thing but no! Old ladies are amazing!

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