Statement

Photo credits: Suvi Tiainen

I am just a reporter.

In my work I try to make people pay more attention to problems which we cause to environment, domesticated and wild animals... About animal rights... The respect for life...

ANIMAL CHARACTERS
Representatives of certain animal species. Studies of expectations, generalizations, beliefs and symbolism around different species.

I observe how animals were positioned in ancient cultures and especially how they still have such a powerful part in our life.

With my work I try to keep them visible...

METHOD
Life is just a beautiful system with a paradoxical structure. Something very huge is composed of super small particles and their movement. To find the balance and the ways how it alters. The constant change. Those are things which we can never fully understand, because it is unnecessary.

Animal forms, colors, materials and reasons to use jewelry... I never make my work to tell only stories about people (human relationships), without telling the stories of other animals at the same time. We are often cruel towards each others but also cruel towards other species too. The unkind humankind. Nothing surprises me more anymore than finding kindness in people. We could live here otherwise too. But people only care about money. All is for sale. But how can you own the sky? The water? The land? Who has given you the right to claim them to be yours?  We people also need clean air, water... Forests to live healthy. Where can you find it nowadays? Many of us just don´t understand it, for they want the quick individual benefits. What a disgrace. It is very difficult to see that famous intelligence in people.

Empathy.

MATERIALS
Stones. Glass. Glass is something which looks in the end super cold material, but has needed enormous amount of warmth along the way of being manufactured. It needs to be handled with the greatest care, or it may easily harm you.

COLORS

Red tells about love, the tearing warmth of life, maintaining force or about blood, danger, death. White describes the fears; white is the color of bones, death but also fragile light, hope. Black is about darkness; the effect of people, death, destruction. My challenge is to bring out the gaps between different colors and the different stages of light in a way that it does justice for the cause, which is to tell about animalrights issues and environmental problems.

DEFINITIONS
a jewellery sculpture = a sculpture which tells about jewelry