Continuity, repetition, succession, the stagnant and persistent activities whose results, possible direction and real dimensions are perhaps revealed later. These things I find interesting. I’m fascinated by how times goes on and how I have the power to mark it, to erect new milestones along my routes. I feel greatness in the moments when my pen scratches the date on a piece of paper.
I painted all the paintings for this exhibition in the mornings during the time between 8.10 am-8.55 am, always in the same room, by the same desk with the same oilcloth spread over it. Behind the window I heard the rumble of traffic from street Runeberginkatu, from a year to another that too sounded the same. I always had 45 minutes to say hello, sit down, choose a block and a palette, know how to start, paint, be silent or talk until it was time to give the new painting a brief look and to say goodbye again. Painfully often my paintings in the stand shouted out what I had avoided to say aloud while I was painting. Or they downright testified that I had been lying in my works.
Of almost 600 watercolour paintings I have chosen 148 for this exhibition. There are three entities: a human being, an animal and a gooseberry.
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Helsinki May 8th 2006, 23.20 pm
