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.