Finally!

So I finished my BA rocking chair!

Small cracks

Small cracks make me feel quite uncomfortable because they either grow or might grow bigger.

Orrefors does it

Orrefors + Karl Lagerfeld. Not sure what to think of this. Desperate maybe. Only simple black and white... yeah right. And the coasters are pretty much something unbelievable.

See Karl here.

Along the way

A rocking chair on my mind.

Taito

The making of a new kiln casting glass mould for my BA project. The mould was complete on the name day of Taito.

Another journey with glass: a baseball bat and a ball

I produced a Finnish baseball bat and three balls in glass. I took these objects to a field and hit one ball with the bat. After two missed attempts I hit the ball. Both the bat and the ball broke into pieces. Two balls remain unbroken. (2011)

video 9 min 25 sec

A stackable crockery for caffeine

Even though these are usable objects, the set is a comment on the efficiency expectations on the people living in our society. The small set is to be given for a small child as a name giving present and it has separate parts for storing liquid caffeine (coffee) and solid caffeine, and the whole set can be carried with as the owner moves around with his busy timetable. (2010)

A stackable set of dishes: a ceramic cup (height 3.5cm, diam. 6.5cm, porcelain, transparent glaze inside), mould blown clear glass cup (height 3cm, diam. 6cm, lip cut and polished) and a clear hot-cast glass lid (height 1cm, diam. 6cm). The set includes also a wooden container for the crockery (height 12cm, diam. 9cm) and a card (describing the use of the set) attached on the container.

My teacher was in Hungary

I had used a year-long course in preparing a work on teenage ideals in which there was supposed to be an actual-size glass human sitting by a table. However, towards to the end of the project various unintended incidents took place and the bigger body parts never got created properly. I was still supposed to present a work in an exhibition at the University and decided to present all the other parts that I had blown. (2010)

Break Glass

For two weeks in  spring 2010 I and Jessica provided the bypassers of the newly named Airi Gallery at Taik this opportunity.

What we started with (cardboard boxes, free-blown clear glass bubbles, a ladder and a plastic tube)

 And what we got

I was thinking: am I sane?

What is the distinction between sanity and insanity? How to define mental disorders? Stills from the video 1 min 9 sec (2008).