Live in the archipelago

In august I did a live installation, which means I created and painted the characters on the spot. While painting I filmed this little video.

Last weekend I returned to the installation. This is what it looked like now.

Arabian katufestivaali 2013

As I did last year I made a live installation at the Arabia street festival i Helsinki. This year the weather was awesome and alot of curious people came and took pics of me working on my installation.


It is more than nice to just sit on the street and make art, it´s the real deal street art interacting with the urban landscape.

Unfortunatelly I had not time to stay longer than I did, I would have liked to do one more installation at the festival. All in all I was really glad to participate this year too and I hope I get the chance to do it again and again.


And if any of you beautiful people have more pictures or video of me working please send it to me or comment with a link to the pics or/and video. Peace

Broadcasting Live on @Bambuser

So, I decided to show you while I work on a installation tonight. The big gray thing is exactly what you think it is. A vacuum cleaner. Or was a vacuum cleaner. Hope you enjoy the show and be my guest to join the bambuser chat.

Painting day

Today is the perfect day to do some painting. I have a few characters left that needs to be shared with the world. I still have to think of their presentation but eventually I will come up with something.

I also have a live* idea that I am eager to do. It will be made out of dough and hopefully I will be able to present it in the near future.

*Live= stuff I do on the spot. I usually make, bake and paint the characters at home but when I do a live thing I shape them and paint them on the spot.

Minimal Street Art - Live in the archipelago

To begin with I want to clarify the term Live. When I do something live it means that I have the dough with me to the spot where I make the characters and then paint them before they have solidified. This often results in poorer quality but it is a very nice experience to do it this way. Especially when it is a warm summer day.
The characters were all painted with only black and white acrylic so the theme is black and white.

The Fisherman






The happy couple

Lanterna Restaurant/Coffee house/art gallery in Nauvo, Finland

Their hair were black so unfortunately it does not show

Minimal Street Art - Live

As I promised you I would do my next characters on the spot, baking and painting. The main plan was to make them on the streets of Helsinki but that plan did not work out due to the lack of time in Helsinki.
But now I have done it here in Vaasa. It was a very interesting project and I will definitely do it again!

The first characters I made I also filmed. As you maybe can see in the video there was some rain coming down, but that didn´t stop me.



It was really easy to paint on the soft characters which I earlier had some doubts about.



The paint did also dry pretty fast so I had no problem painting on the newly painted areas. My only concern was the rain.

And here comes the video of the making and baking. The video is in fast forward and still pretty long. But I hope the sweet soundtrack will keep you watching. It is made by my friend and Dj Paul M.B.



The next characters I made were at a playground inspired by the playground.





I am really inspired to continue making characters live on the streets. It is not as easy as making them at home but it is very fun. And I get so much inspiration from the people I see!