Public Art, Installations

"The Garden of Branching Paths" will be a collection of public artwork at the brand new Annefred-neighborhood in Vantaa. The creations of the sculptures has already been going on since 2020, and I hope that the first pieces will be installed in 2024 - and the last ones maybe in 2030...On the photo you can see the first 3D-model of "Tiu Tau Tilhi", a future 22-meter high stainless steel and glass composition.

Immersion is a project constructed entirely on 3D modeling program for the moment. It was proposed in front of a scientific museum and is supposed to be completed with a virtual environment inside the building.

The Angel is a bronze sculpture, situated at the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki, Finland. It was financed by private fonds and commanded by the Helsingin Seurakuntayhtymä. The sculpture is about 250 cm high and is on the monument ”Muualla Lepäävien Muistomerkki” created by Heikki Häiväoja. On All Saints Day and at Christmas Eve the place is lightened up by thousands of candles by parents that want to remember their family members resting far away.

This sculpture in fiberglass was situated at the young peoples unemployement office at Dieppe, France. It was constructed in 1995 with the trainees of the studio for the integration of young people having problems. The sculpture was 450 cm high. The fiberglass has a limited life-time on seafront weather so I decided to take it off in 2017 as it did not look so nice anymore and there was no public financing or will to repair it.

The village of Bourg-Dun wished to have a light/sculpture installation for Christmas 2018. With François Blosseville, as lighing specialist, we put up this artwork in the heights of a small limestone church. The largest width of the sculpture is about 550 cm and it is suspended at 5 m. Finally, on demand of the community, it stayed in the church until the ”Festival du Lin”, in july 2019.

The Onninen Ltd headquarters in Vantaa was a six-store building midst of an industrial area. It was dismantled in 2019. My sculpture was situated near the entrance in 2003. It was welded from non-corrosive steel and on it´s base ran a fountain, as the Onninen family company had begun as a plumber shop.

The sculpture has now been reinstalled in front of the FEON enterprise (steel wholeseller) in Hattula, Finland.

The city of Dieppe asked for a light and music installation at the Saint Rémy Church for the patrimonial days in 2009. Compositor Sylvie Noel made the music and I created a complex light installation including several projections with different techniques on the ceiling and on the walls. The theme of the year was accessibility, both physical and intellectual.