Installation for the series “Balancing on Roots” 2026
Made of collected, bought, gifted and made objects.
Collected :
Coral + broken shells - Taganga
Sea bean - Sierra Nevada, Palomino
Rock - Himarë
Burned and oiled Mänty tree trunks - Family land in West-Finland
Bought:
Herbs - Riohacha
Urucum (annatto seeds) - Riohacha + Salvador Handmade notebook - Bogota
Sea shell Instrument - Salvador
Frog rock - Santa Marta
Gifted:
Baobab seeds - my friend Glen
Book on finnish plants - my grandmother
Book "O dom da vida" - my friend Filipe
Kalevala bear - my grandmother
Terracotta clay piece - my friend Kelner
Wine bottle heads + cheese mold - my great-grandmother
Made:
Pigment - Minca
White clay sculpture - Salvador
Oil paint and earth pigments on primed linen - My studio in Helsinki.