I get to the art as a fish get into the net, there was no more options than step in and stay. However the road was quite long and not easy. The appeal was more material than anything else. I focused my skills to design objects but having the merchandise as my goal. So when it was time to choose a career, it was more logical for me to choose graphical communication and design rather than visual arts. I worked at advertising and later designing and selling promotional product. I learned graphic and print and materials and production lately. I designed wooden objects and also glass and metallic pieces but always was someone else who made the work while I was watching. I was gaining money while others had fun.
Fourteen years ago I found myself far away abroad and without money. I began to do the things I saw others do. I started to paint and invent my world here. I made frames with brass and later wooden frames wrapped with autumn leaves. I painted with tempera, gouache and watercolor and one day I was able to see some of my work at a health center in Malminkartano, Helsinki. At that time I was traveling in Holland. There I experimented with some clay and had managed to make a sculpture of a woman sitting in a bench. Suddenly I was working with clay, stone and paper mache among other things and I showed my work in a local library in Espoo, Finland and carrying the passion found around 53 years. From somewhere I remember that the journey is far more important than the destiny.
