I am a multifaceted artist born in Helsinki. I have worked across a wide range of media, from ballpoint pen to various mixed techniques, producing both two-dimensional works and sculptures. In recent years, I have focused primarily on watercolour and, as a member of the Crazy Compass Gallery collective, on video. The collective brings together the music of the band Elliot's Crazy Compass with moving images, collaborating with various visual artists. I have also created a series of single and album covers for the band.
My artistic thinking is directed toward an intense exploration of the depths of human experience, and through my works I aim to evoke an empathetic gaze toward others. As an artist, one of my pursuits is to translate into images a continuous inner conflict that I experience in an intense and bodily manner: the urge for a softer, slower, kinder reality in the cold, fast-paced and unjust world. Especially in my self-portraits and other figure paintings made with watercolours, the pain of the contemporary human being is embodied. In other works, I have addressed the way in which I think all human beings are fundamentally connected to one another and nature — whether they want to be or not — and have described people as an infinite web that transcends time and space. Through my works, I call for compassion, which this indelible connection should already entail.