Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Favourite writers and short stories
This is one of the best things I've ever done. Classic short stories are among the works I admire the most. It's amazing what these writers are able to do in the density of just a few pages. I'm usually impressed by everything surrounding the plot and I only know the title before I start reading.
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822)
The Sandman
Honore de Balzac (1799–1850)
The Curé of Azay-le-Rideau
The Virgin of Thilhouse
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Masque of the Red Death
The Oval Portrait
The Pit and the Pendulum
Silence
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
Fear
Lasting Love
Minuet
The Wolf
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
A Joke
A Mystery
Sleepy
A Work of Art
Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
A Country Doctor
The Hunter Gracchus
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)
The Burning Man
Fever Dream
The Golden Apples of the Sun
Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
At Daybreak
The Call of the Water
Conscience
Richard Matheson (1926–2013)
Crickets
The Holiday Man
Clive Barker (1952)
The Life of Death
The Yattering and Jack
Sunday, September 8, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Art questions September 2019
Q: Why did you choose black and white?
A: This wax drawing technique I developed is a monochrome technique. Black and white is not a strange choice in the world of drawing, but you have to understand it. To me it is mainly about shapes. Bringing out the strength and the energy is crucial. I have never had a list of black and white techniques and I never will. I simply believe in its possibilities.
When I was a teenager I discovered the black-and-white photography of Matti A. Pitkänen and the illustrations of Gustave Dore. Films like Eraserhead, Repulsion and Tetsuo furthered my interest in this visual approach. German expressionism finally urged me to start drawing.
Q: What would you do if you couldn't make music or drawings?
A: I've started writing short stories this year. There's lots of ideas and I'm trying to finish one of these stories.
I would also like to be a comedian who writes books, but that's never going to happen. It's a fantasy. I love language, older stand-up, Spike Milligan, Lord Buckley and Groucho Marx.
Monday, September 2, 2019
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Quote of the century
My main operating principle: Don't take any shit from the zeitgeist.
George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty
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