Unraveling
September 30 – October 21, 2020
Featuring work by Linn Byrkjeland, Sami Havia, Hanna Kanto, Leena Keränen, Aura Latva-Somppi, Siina Levonoja, Marika Maijala, Astrid Strömberg, Armi Teva, and Penni Vasama.
We live in transformative times.
We are redefining our values, our priorities, and what home, community, health, and happiness truly mean to us.
Things are unraveling.
We don't yet know what lies on the other side.
So we trust.
We love.
We cherish what we have.
And we remain open enough to see with new eyes.
Unraveling grew from these reflections.
It explored the courage of letting go.
Letting go of control. Of attachment. Of needing to know exactly how things will unfold.
Sometimes, only through unraveling can something more truthful emerge: a new way of seeing, living and creating.
At its heart, the exhibition was about a longing to return: to simplicity.
To a life that leaves space for poetry, spaciousness, sensitivity, integrity, and love.
What if meaningful transformation doesn't begin by adding something new.
What if it begins by allowing what no longer serves us to fall away and change form.
And allowing ourselves to feel everything that the process brings to the surface.
The Artists
Linn Byrkjeland
Sami Havia
Hanna Kanto
Leena Keränen
Aura Latva-Somppi
Siina Levonoja
Marika Maijala
Astrid Strömberg
Armi Teva
Penni Vasama
Looking Back
Reading these words now, my heart feels wam and I smile.
Today, I can see I was already exploring the questions that continue to define the essence my work.
How do we let go of what no longer serves us?
How do we create new ways of seeing?
How do we return to what is essential?
Unraveling was a manifestation of my philosophy that was emerging before I had the language for it.
The Exhibitions
An exploration of art, belonging, emotional landscapes, and the many ways art can bring people together.
Hetki
2018
An invitation to feel belonging through art.
Sensual Closeness
2019
Exploring presence through the senses
Ripples
2019
An inquiry around how experiences continue living within us.
Unraveling
2020
An exploration of transformation through letting go.
Reframing
2020
An invitation to see with new eyes by reconnecting with intuition, presence, and the landscape within.
A Playful Approach
2021
Examining playfulness as a path towards discovery, freedom, and new ways of seeing.
Reflections
2021
A reflection on: not everything meaningful needs to be interpreted before it can be felt.
Together
2022
An invitation to trust that meaningful creation grows through relationships, generosity, and shared ways of seeing.
Enigmatic
2022
An invitation to trust intuition not as certainty: as a way of listening before something has language.
Caldera
2022
The inexplicable, cloud-like force of creation .
Bridges
2023
What if the things we create are creating us in return?
What it Means To Be Human
2025
What if our greatest creations are the ones that remind us what it means to be human?