In the forest, I will be reborn Contemplative I lived in an old

I lived in an old house whose roof window was surrounded by a dense cobweb with its inhabitants

and prone to changing over time

This painting is called Taivas minussa (Heaven in me)

An important part of my practice involves moments of foraging and preserving

I have played with the idea of what these icons may have represented to the people who created them and what kind of relationship they had with nature at the time

In the forest, I will be reborn Contemplative I lived in an oldThis artwork has been in display at Galleria Uusi Kipin, Lahti and Galleria Sein, Helsinki during the fall of 2024. In nature, I find myself on the edge of endings and renewal, contemplating the transformation that exists within all things. The world of plants reveals itself to me as vast rootsan interconnected network that extends to all of us. Humans cannot act apart from this, for the body is always bound to a changing environment. In the