Underwater Lifeforms
Invasion of the Sea anemone, 2020. Stoneware. In private collection.
Tuhkaturkki (Ash Fur), 2019. Stoneware, ash, seashell. Photo Emilia Pennanen. In private collection.
Simpukka, 2022. Stoneware, ash. Photo Emilia Pennanen.
Unnamed, unarmed, 2020. Stoneware, ash, seashell. In private collection.
Caribbean Red, 2018. Stoneware, paint. In The Finnish State Art Collection (2019).
Kynnet (Nails), 2020. Stoneware. Photo Tommi Teronen.
Solitary, 2020. Stoneware, recycled glass.
Sydänhirviö (Heart Beast), 2020. Stoneware, engobe, glaze, oxide.
Royal Family, 2020. Stoneware.
Colony 2018. Stoneware. In private collection.
Yhteenkasvaneet (Colony), 2019. Stoneware. In private collection.
Caribbean, 2018. Stoneware. In private collection.
Little Caribbean, 2018. Stoneware.
Kingdom: Animalia, 2018. Stoneware.
Zoanthidea, 2018. Stoneware, porcelain.
2019. Porcelain.
Sininen sormikoralli hengaa järkälekorallin kanssa (Blue finger coral hanging with the boulder coral), 2019. Porcelain.
Family Mycedium, 2020. Stoneware. Photo Tommi Teronen.
Piilo (Hideout), 2020. Stoneware. Photo Tommi Teronen.
Eels Eat at Night, 2020. Stoneware. Photo Tommi Teronen.
2019. Stoneware. In private collection.
Caramba, 2020. Stoneware.
Seagrass, 2018. Porcelain.
Porifera, 2019. Stoneware. In private collection.
Jokin Nephtheidae-suvun laji (A Nephtheidae), 2018. Porcelain.
Merilevä (Seaweed), 2019. Porcelain. In private collection.
Sea Snake, the Greatest, 2018. Stoneware, porcelain, paint.
Rakkohauru (Bladder Wrack), 2019. Porcelain.
Sea Snake, 2018. Stoneware, porcelain. In private collection.
Homage to Rugosa I & II, 2020. Stoneware, porcelain. Photo by Tommi Teronen.
When I was a little girl I had an aquarium. I watched the fish and I dreamed of being a fish in the reef. This surreal longing toward lives in other realities and dimensions have stayed in me.
The sculptures arise from the artistic investigation of the endangered or extinct animals of the coral reefs. The underwater life is a world that humans can only observe as an outsider. It is another reality with its beings, societies and events.
The sculptures grow their own world, using elements from the artist’s dreams, tempers and longing. Longing behind the mirror, over the edge, to the unknown reality. The dream of diving under the water surface, to meet with the others alike and to become-with again.