Toukat

Toukat (Maggots), 2015. Tallinn, Estonia. Stoneware, porcelain, steel bar. Five sculpture, each 70 cm.

Toukat is an installation of five ceramic sculptures that present maggots. The work handles the subjects of fear. Fear is always a personal experience. We may not easily accept things we are afraid of. Sometimes the fear keeps us from development and happiness. A fear can grow into a social phenomena and common norm. Little by little things get accepted, when the brave ones shows example. Be couraged, and the freedom follows.

The installation which consists of five ceramic maggot sculptures were exhibited in the group exhibition in Tornide väljak Park, Tallinn during the summer 2015. It was a collaborative project by  Hamk University of Applied Sciences and EKA Eesti Kunstiakadeemia ceramic art students.

Kana

Kana (The Hen), 2013. Raku clay, chicken wire, steel bar, iron board. 270 x 420 mm.

When I was a kid, I had our hens as my friends. Together we hunted worms and maggots in our garden. I used to have then hen named Friday in my arms. I formed the sculpture by using the old photos as a model and I utilized the muscle memory to find the right size and shape for the sculpture. I put it to the cage, as a reference for how limited living space the hens have in a battery cage henhouse.

Stones

Every morning, 2016. Stoneware. D 60 cm.

I grew up in a house in the middle of the forest. I went to school there for ten years, and I spent a few minutes each morning in a same spot of the road shoulder, waiting for a school cab. The stone saw me growing up. 

I work with stones in places that are my mental landscape. Stones is a sculpture series, which is inspired by the stones in the places of my memories. I have been working with it from time to time since 2013.