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27. – 30.4.2023
Balbuceos en reserva, Melting Point, Galería una Página en Blanco, Valencia, Spain

10.3. – 10.5.2023
Joya en Tránsito ‘Mumbling of a Prelude’, Fundación El Buen Pasto, San Felipe, Chile

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The La brújula - Arte en tránsito exhibition M

The La brújula - Arte en tránsito exhibition Mumbling of a Prelude (including my Cinders Sap brooches) will also come the long way from Chile to Valencia to be part of Melting Point 2023 in Spain next week! The exhibition will feature a smaller selection of pieces and runs as "Mumblings in Reserve" <3

Find it from 27. - 30.4.2023 at Galería una Página en Blanco, Valencia, Spain
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#MeltingPoint #labrujula.art #labrujulaarteentransito #MeltingPoint2023 #BalbuceosEnReserva #joyeríacontemporánea #Contemporaryjewellery #curatorjewerly #jewelleryart

I did want to go on working on them little baskets

I did want to go on working on them little baskets and showing you all some more background and videos in March but then came a long and urgent break because of difficult family issues at home in Germany. Those issues, while they will probably never be completely resolved, are definitely in a better state now and I'm back in Finland. I'll try to get back to the baskets over the next weeks and hope to get something done to show you soon. But until then, have some spring morning pictures from my beloved German home!
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#spring #springlight #uckermark #uckermarkgermany #landscapephotography #landscape #rurallandscapes #springlandscape #morninglight

Found the Apocalypse edition of NOD magazine in my

Found the Apocalypse edition of NOD magazine in my mail box some days ago!
Thank you for your hard work, people from @notonlydecoration 🤩
and thank you for including my work 💚
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#notonlydecoration #apocalypse #magazine #activistart #morethanjewelry

Also opening this week is the yearly art sale even

Also opening this week is the yearly art sale event of the Finnish Jewelry Art Association! I helped out a little yesterday with the building and there's once again a big and varied group of artists showing really cool pieces!
The event is on 11. – 19.3.2023, Mondays to Fridays 12–18 and 11–17 on the weekends! Check it out at the Cable Factory, Valssaamo, B-entry, Kaapeliaukio 3 in Helsinki.

The Painters' Association Art Sale is at the same time and place, so A LOT of art to look at and maybe also get something for yourself!
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Korutaideyhdistys ry
#korutaideyhdistys #teosmyynti #KorutaideyhdistyksenTeosmyynti #artsale #artsaleevent #helsinki #cablefactory #contemporaryjewelry #jewelryart

Also right now at Munich Jewelry Week is the amazi

Also right now at Munich Jewelry Week is the amazing Precious Collective!!
We turn 5 this year and the Battle of the Pins exhibition is the way to celebrate! 🥳
It just opened a few hours ago; find them together with @polyphonous_exhibitions at Schulstraße 27, 80634 München

Opening hours are:
Thursday 9th; 10:00-16:00
Friday 10th; 10:00-16:00
Saturday 11th; 10:00-14:00
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@precious.collective
#alliages #preciouscollective #exhibition #5years #battleofthepins #jewellery #contemporaryartjewellery #wearableart #schmuck #bijou #joya #mjw #munichjewelryweek

And some great things happening this week! Let's

And some great things happening this week!

Let's start with NOD -
Not Only Decoration is a platform for socially and environmentally conscious art and design projects.
The third edition of their magazine, themed 'Apocalypse', is just out and my Cinders series is in it, too 🤩
You can buy the magazine from their webpage or right now live in Munich in case you happen to visit Munich jewelry week! There, NOD can be found at the Astonish @lets_get_astonish_ed booth in Halle B1, 757 at IHM, Internationale Handwerksmesse.
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@notonlydecoration
#consciousjewelry #artactivism #apocalypseedition #NOD #notonlydecoration #MJW

And another Branch so the instagram row looks nic

And another Branch so the instagram row looks nice 😅

Autumn Branch
2022
plastic bags, pigment, wire
~35cm high
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#plasticbags #wasteart #branch #contemporarycraft #madefromwhat #upcycling #colorgradation #inspiredbynature #plasticleaves #autumncolors #growing #wallart

~continued from precious post~ Here my review of

~continued from precious post~

Here my review of the last 10 years is pretty much done.
I wanted to look back on where I've come from, how and why, and decide and verbalize where I want to go from here. Sometimes it feels hard to get things done and having some intentions written down helps.

I tried to not to just list achievements, but do want to mention two more things now because they are connected to where I want to go from here. One, in 2018 I was part of the European Craft Prize exhibition and, two, over the years I've made a few small videos about other artists, my own work and the Land Jewelry project.

Those videos I have been really interesting to work on and I would like to get better at that. I also love watching other artists and craftspeople work and while I have shown a little of my own processes I think it could be nice to do more of that.

The Craft Prize I mention because I have noticed how much joy seeing well made craft of any kind brings me. I have tried to make that kind of work myself and want to get better at it. I want to immerse myself also in already existing techniques, accrue more of that deep unspoken knowledge that resides in one's hands and comes only through experience and countless repetition.

And of course land art.
I want to be out more. I want to interact, influence and be influenced by the precious living world around us. It is awe-inspiring and beautiful and crucial. Hopefully I can somehow make more people want to be a part of it, instead of just benefiting from it.
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Picture 1 (2) is another one from Valle del Treja. Paths are just such nice metaphors for the future.
Picture 3 is one more from the photo shoot in 2016, taken by Mikko Joona. That light 🧡
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#artistbackground #futuregoals #valledeltreja #lauttasaari #italy #landscape #landscapephotography #growth #tangle #forestscape #trees #alongthepath #morningatmosphere #springlight #seascape

~continued from previous post~ In spring 2020 the

~continued from previous post~

In spring 2020 the world ground to a halt. The loss of lives and livelihoods, the stress of isolation will remain undeniably terrible. But there were positive sides to the forced pause. Less work, less commuting, less production, less pollution. More time. Many people explored nature close to their homes. Many crafted, cooked, gardened – things more meaningful than the short-term dopamine hit of buying something on a whim. The change was extreme and sudden, but it did show ways one can be content without going out to spend money. I think many people have always known this, but still consumerism prevails. A system of constant growth that has never made sense.

And when things opened up again everything pretty much just went back to that. It felt as if nothing had changed. That, in addition to my anger about the trash dumps in the nature reserve in Italy, made it that my exhibition 'Plastic Nature' in '21 had a more pessimistic tone and felt difficult to put together. I'm still unsure about it.

So I went back to small leaves. And soon I refined the technique and now they come in bright colors. They are easy to look at, pretty and positive. Too positive? I might never stop questioning this. But now I deliberately return to the dystopia/utopia theory I touched on in a previous post. I want to show possibility instead of catastrophy. I hope this might encourage people to embrace the changes that need to be made.

So what's next?

(one more post to come!)
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Picture 1 Sunset branch, a wallpiece that couldn't be part of 'Still Garden' because it is still in pandemic limbo somewhere in China. Irony?

Picture 2 Requiem 1, brooch
Picture 3 Deceit, sculpture (about 30cm high)
Picture 4 'Litter', installation (needs ~100 more leaves...)
Pieces like these set the tone in 'Plastic Nature'
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#backgroundstory #artistbackground #plasticbags #wasteart #artactivism #madefromwhat #upcycling #colorgradation #inspiredbynature #plasticleaves #sunsetcolors #burnedwood #deepestblack

~continued from last post~ Even though Covid made

~continued from last post~

Even though Covid made everything unpredictable and so much harder to organize these last years, quite a lot did in fact happen, often in the lull between waves and quarantines. There was Land Jewelry, two solo exhibitions, a Brazilian/Finnish jewelry art exhibition in Sao Paolo I helped organize on the Finnish end, but maybe most importantly, a 2-month artist residency in Mazzano Romano, Italy. This was spring '21 and meeting people wasn't encouraged, but I didn't mind the distancing - there was the Valle del Treja nature reserve right on my doorstep.

From a little flat high in Mazzano's old town I watched the valley wake and bloom and, suitably inspired, made progress in finally combining pigments and plastic bags.

I walked the river gorge for hours. One of my most vivid memories is the sound of small lizards running through dry leaves, fleeing sun-warmed paths at my approach.

I also documented big illegal waste dumps on the edges of the reserve, leaving me feeling angry and helpless. I tried to channel some of that anger into 'Litter', a series of small objects alluding to discarded waste but also the natural top layer of leaves in a forest. It needs many, many more leaf-objects to really work though...

(I was planning to have only 12 posts, alongside the exhibition that's ending today but apparently I like to talk about myself so there's going to be 1or 2 more next week 😅)
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Picture 1: Hedera Chroma, to be seen for the last day today @gaoshanhelsinki!

Picture 2: Early spring morning
Picture 3: ... (I found it exactly that way)
Picture 4: 'Litter'
Pictures 5 and 6 show both sides of one of the objects from 'Litter'
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#backgroundstory #blastfromthepast #artistbackground #plasticbags #wasteart #artactivism #litter #illegaldumping #trashbag #documenting #environment #pollution

~continued from last post~ Project Land Jewelry w

~continued from last post~

Project Land Jewelry was born already in 2018 when fellow artist Maja Breife contacted me with the idea to create some kind of project in connection with the sea. Judging from my work she had correctly assumed I would be interested to be part of it. I visited her on Öland, Sweden the next year and we planned an event in which we would bring together a group of jewelry artists from around the Baltic Sea to create land art on the shore of that very island.

I'd been fascinated by land art for a while. Not so much huge earthworks but smaller installations using local natural materials in the landscape - arranging, connecting, interacting. And then, slowly fading.

I really wanted to try my hand at it and judging from the answer to our open call, other jewelry artists felt the same. But writing about a dozen applications never yielded a grant for the project and the pandemic got in the way repeatedly, too. We eventually did make it happen in '21, the same way that so many art projects are realized: on a tiny budget with the artists themselves paying for travel and lodging, basically paying for being able to work.

I am so thankful to all of our participants for sticking with us and help make it happen. I think we did a really cool thing despite all the difficulties.

~to be continued~
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Picture 1 shows brooches from the Collema series. Last chance to see them live in 'Still Garden' @gaoshanhelsinki until Sunday!

Picture 2: Maja Breife, 8 braids, grass, 2021, Öland
Picture 3: Gyres and Waves, living interwoven reed, 2021, Öland
Picture 4: Glimpse of 'Land Jewelry' exhibition in Klaipeda, Lithuania last year

Again, too many pictures to show all, so I decided on just one each of Maja's and my works. We happened to end up using somewhat similar techniques and I really like how the outcome connects.
Please do go and check out the other artists' work and the whole project @projectlandjewelry
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#backgroundstory #blastfromthepast #artistbackground #landart #landjewelry #öland #balticsea #landart #environmentalart #seashore #interwoven #gyre #braids #natureinstallation

~continued from last post~ Stopping the part-time

~continued from last post~

Stopping the part-time work felt daunting, but savings and smaller freelance jobs along with managing to sell some art once in a while did the trick for 2019.
Soon though, Covid would come knocking on all our doors.

My mum insists I am and always have been lucky. That usually things would work out for me eventually, even if they seemed difficult at first or needed several tries. And while that may have a lot to do with disposition (we are both fairly optimistic and diligent) and also the privilege of being white, middle class European, that belief sure got a boost that year.

I had been applying for different grants again since 2018 and now received two in short succession. Starting in January 2020, for at least 1 and a half years, I would be supported full time again. You can imagine I had an easier time of the Pandemic than a lot of people. When the quarantine hit I just really enjoyed not having to go out, to just be at home and concentrate on making art. I mostly kept quiet about that when I saw how many other people struggled with making ends meet and being under the stress of isolation. (We live in the same house with friends)

And there was a thing to balance out my general good fortune: while my personal grant game had been very successful, the one for Project Land Jewelry was decidedly dismal.

~to be continued~
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Picture 1 shows Fallopia Chroma, still to be seen at my solo show 'Still Garden' @gaoshanhelsinki for 3 more days!

Pictures 2 to 4 are of Cinder brooches (the last one with a closeup)
The grants I received at such a fortunate timing were (among other things) for finally working in color and these were the first pieces that came out of it. They are strongly influenced by the terrible forest fires especially in the Amazon in 2019.
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#backgroundstory #blastfromthepast #artistbackground #plastic #plasticbags #madefromwhat #contemporaryjewelry #upcycling #burnedwood #deepestblack #wasteart #burningforest #artactivism

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