Photo: Tua Mylius
In me remembers
2018, Wood
525 x 125 x 70 cm
IN ME REMEMBERS
Welcome! Step into Memory’s Holy Room – my grandfather’s old boat and my life’s scribbles and stiches sewn into it in jute twine.
Twenty years ago the subject started to weigh down on me. In 1999 with the help of Alfred Kordelin Foundation’s grant I started to collect material for “Finnish wooden boat – artifact and experience”. For the last two and a half years I have been darning the boat with jute twine.
To me, the boat is full of meaning, symbolism and memories of my grandparents, my childhood family and my life. The work is also important to me personally in ways that I cannot consciously capture.