Hi, I’m H, 35-year-old Visual Artist from Finland. I work with various media, including painting, jewelry art and installation.
My paintings are my diary that I fail to write.
When I paint, I subconsciously tend to end up revealing my innermost thoughts on the paper. The marks I make are my language. The process of grinding the ink and mark making has turned into a ritual rather than actual act of just painting or drawing. The colorful notions of oil pastel ginger up the dozens of tones of grey, like stickers in a diary margin. They are a reminder, that life should not be taken so gravely.
As a proud victim of consumerist culture, in the field of jewelry art, I mix supermarket aesthetics of everyday life with timeless organic materials into jewelry art. Repetition is the key. The results are always unique, yet they still bear the resemblance to one another. Whether it’s slip casting ceramics, embroidery, stone or steel pins, one is never enough. It is like an on-going story; always to be continued in the next episode.
About Ao3@3am
I am one of the founding members of art collective Ao3@3am. The art collective’s central theme is the role of popular culture in adolescence and the massive effect it has on forming one’s identity. Core of which was the dawn of the internet, granting access to an unlimited number of different media. Language and physical barriers ceased to exist. Japanese pop culture was in the center of this revolution, leaving a deep and generally despised impact on future artists and their work. As a stark contrast to the digital themes the mediums used for the art are traditional and most of all physical.
My pieces focus on how the popular culture has influenced on forming one’s identity and ponder the consumerist extremes of fan culture, concentrating on fan merchandise and memorabilia.
I’m also working at LAB University of Applied Sciences in Lappeenranta as a workshop master for painting and jewelry departments, and I run an art gallery at the campus called Galleria NOSTE.
Blank and a Tint of Black 