Niin on!

I find myself rereading Becky Chambers' books, especially in these trying times...

Recommendation: Designmuseo, Helsinki, Maija Lavonen's work 🤍

Finally some light in usually grey and drab February southern Finland

An exhibiton opened Tuesday that has some of my basketry style work, as well as beautiful pieces by textile artist Raija Jokinen and some more vintage textile art. Have a look at gallery GAoShAn at Snellmaninkatu 15 if you're in Helsinki :D Open until 8.3.!

I'm also trying out Pixelfed right now - in case you want to check that out you can find me there under wpandikow@pixelfed.art

I have really no idea what if anything at all will come of any of this but hey, new possibilities 😅 (but don't expect frequent posts or regularity anywhere 😝)

Recently I have shifted my focus to ancient textile and basketry techniques, taking ways that humans (and some non-humans) have twisted and looped and interlaced natural materials for thousands of years, and applying them to this very modern, ubiquitous and controversial material.
#ancientcraft

I started out a little over 10 years ago, and have since then worked with plastic bags. For a decade I have worked on them with self-developed techniques, using a flat and a soldering iron to transform them in such a way as for them to become quite unrecognizable as plastic bags.
#plasticbags

I am still quite unsure what this will be, bsky and me on it, but of course one needs to start out somehow, get some experiences to shape an opinion. So let me introduce myself. I am a material and craft focused visual artist, working mainly on the scale of jewelry.
#contemporarycraft #craft