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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Upcoming:

Cover-ups & teardowns
10.9.-28.9.2025
Taidekeskus Ahjo, Joensuu

Vernissage: 9.9. 18-20, welcome!

My previous exhibitions have mostly consisted of animal skulls covered with rich textiles, but along with the fabrics in Cover-ups and teardowns-exhibition, I'll attemp to also brings the pure forms of skulls to the fore for the first time with the help of ceramics. 

I'll bring some of my previous textile sculptures to the Kytö/Liekki-space in Taidekeskus Ahjo, where I've created works with colorful and organic-style patterns on top of animal skulls. Among these hanging, bursting and soft forms, newer, harder surfaces peek out — stripped-down ceramic works that remind both the viewers and myself of what is left under the layers.

I've tried to create some pairings with my older textiles works — covered in layers — and new shiny ceramics — stripped down forms of what once was — in hopes of creating a balanced combination.

In the pictures above I've featured "disfavor of he kiln gods" and some work in progress pieces that still need to be fired up in the kiln ❤️‍🔥

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