Teetä ja sympatiaa ( MFA art exhibition Kuvan Kevät 2026)

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Change and the drawning of personal ecological grief is explored in this work of which the starting point is a distressing early childhood memory – a potato field covered in white, from which I could see wings and heads.

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Between 1986-1988 in Northern Ostrobothnia, fur farmers waged war against seagulls. They used Bladan which contained alphachloralose and parathion – neurotoxic poisons that the Ministry of the Environment still approved in the 1980s for use on fur farms to ward off seagulls. The chemicals were often used illegally and carelessly. These neurotoxins killed hundreds of gulls, and endangered birds such as Eurasian eagle owls and white tailed eagles.

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I stood on one of these fields, grief-stricken , in the summer of 1987.