Who & Why

Although visual expression was always my thing, something clicked when I made my first digital pixel drawings as a kid all the way back in the 80’s with a Commodore Amiga home computer in our country side home in Finland. Since then the digital creative tools have fascinated me, first as a hobby and later as a profession – I’ve found myself being a professional visual designer for two decades.

Bending a computer into my artistic will gives me pleasure. Through algorithms and self coded design tools machine becomes a superior paintbrush, able to generate otherworldly visions. But digital is only the other side of the equation. Rendering the art work into the analogue realm is where the magic happens when imperfections of the real world blend with clean digital forms.

I want to always push the envelope, take things further, add something new, and maybe end up creating something truly unique – which is of course hard these days, but worth pursuing.

New materials, techniques and methods are a significant source of inspiration to me. There’s a material that reacts with heat? Ok, how can I project heat on a painting? Or even better, how do I build a robot that draws an image with heat? How to build robots? What motif / emotion this new technique would reflect? — The endless iterative learning path keeps me motivated and in movement. And prevents/delays dementia, hopefully.

Making art should also be fun. But fun doesn’t equal with easy – fun can be exhausting, repetitive and frustrating as long as you have the spark to keep pushing further. Everything I create is meant to be uplifting, curious and – sometimes – mysterious.

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