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Time passes and wears away. I continue to practice looking. I remember what I have seen, I forget. I draw a weary line, spread color stained with charcoal. Many beginnings, a few endings adhere to the canvas. I leave the options open. The right moment for something to be finished is when there is enough of something.
Time and memory, remembering and forgetting, are constant themes in my work. I reflect on looking and seeing. I examine my way of looking and consider the foundations of my visual memory.
My practice is painting-based, with acrylic and charcoal or pencil on canvas or panel as my primary techniques. I play with repetition and chance.
I also create spatial works by combining painting with sewing or by sewing paper. Cutting, deconstructing, and reassembling are of interest to me, and the reuse of materials is important. The process of making is about time, slowness, and silence.
I bring my newest paintings from the Practices of Looking series to Turku. In them, the subjects of observation are now withered tulips. The latest part of the Landscapes body of work is an example of combining painting and sewing. The components of the paper-sewn works Biography are made up of my old diaries.