Nature can handle it, but what about us humans?

I am absolutely sure that nature will manage perfectly without us humans. We tend to make invalid plans, bad decisions and wrong choices in our lives. We wonder about our role in society, in nature, in the world and in an art exhibition. The fly is not unclear about its tasks, the dandelion does not make wrong decisions during its life, the moon does not move in wrong direction.
2022
Photo: Hannes Friberg

Nature can handle it, but what about us humans?

I found a shoe during an evening walk. It's been lying around there for some time, moss growing through the seams. I pick up the waste and decide to try to keep the moss
alive and help it to break down what man left behind. Maybe my attempt will not
succeed, and the decaying of the shoe would have progressed a lot better if nature had taken care of it by itself.
Exhibition view
2022
Photo: Alexandra Sandbäck

Nature can handle it, but what about us humans?

People mean only well, but it can turn out so wrong.

Nature can handle it, but what about us humans?

Exhibition view
2022
Photo: Alexandra Sandbäck

Nature can handle it, but what about us humans?

Exhibition view
2022
Photo: Alexandra Sandbäck

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After Coffee

Recycled coffee capsules
Installation view from Platform 20-years festival Post at Vasa Main Library
2021

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Humle people

Open studio and participative work Humlefolket at Humle festival Monäs
2021

Humle people

Open studio and participative work Humlefolket at Humle festival Monäs
2021

Humle People

Open studio and participative work Humlefolket at Humle festival Monäs
2021

Humle People

Open studio and participative work Humlefolket at Humle festival Monäs
2021

Humle People

Open studio and participative work Humlefolket at Humle festival Monäs
2021

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Threads of Life

Emroidery and sewing
2021
The threads of life is a textile work that has been realized in collaboration with two senior groups at the Heinätorikeskus in Hermantalo, Pietarsaari.

The threads of Life

Embroidery and sewing
2021
One of the participated groups was in Finnish and the other in Swedish. Groups meet weekly
to day activities and meetings.

The Threads of Life

Detail
2021
The implemented textile work is based on group meetings during which the participants were asked to tell their place of birth as well as other places they have lived in. Based on these stories the work was formed at the following meetings of each of the participant’s “Threads of Life” map, telling migration routes between the places they have lived in.

The threads of Life

Detail
2021
The work also contains embroidered memories from the meetings regarding
childhood, youth, working life and the present. A place for the finished work was found from the lobby of Hermantalo, where it reminds and delights group members even after the cooperated meetings.

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Thank you and goodbye

Spray paint, embroidery, rose
Exhibition view
2021
My studies in the visual arts, and with it my understanding of and participation in the diversity of contemporary art, have made me really appreciate my position as a visual artist.

Thank you and goodbye

Exhibition view
2021
I realize that being able to express my values, views, and opinions through my work is a breathtakingly great opportunity for this profession.

Thank you and goodbye

Detail
2021
These opportunities should be properly used on the visual arts platform that encounters audiences.

Thank you and goodbye

Detail
2021

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