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7.10.2013 pisinreisii

Kuvittele! / Picture this!

To some people, unfortunately, art teaching equals crafts where you cut and glue paper to create some horrendous christmas elf using a toilet paper roll as a base. The reason behind is the teachers of the primary school who tend to be uneducated in arts and they came up with tasks that are really outdated and have not so much to do with art as a school subject.

Well, I am not going to go into that (yeah, it is my favourite topic) more deeply now but instead show you the outcome of my paper purchases combined with my recent free time. I had a chance to offer a picture narrative to the literature magazine Lumooja and in the first image, you can see some of the outcomes. I do not know if they will publish any of them but for me that is the irrelevant part, because working on them gave me a lot other ideas (you know how it first starts out as a tiny inclination of an idea and then multiply and multiply until you have hundreds of scribbles on post-its).

The second image is the outcome of my obsession to create cards for my dearest and I got so thrilled with the different colors and textures that ended up working on them a couple of hours. Cutting and glueing is once a year just the thing needed.

The inspiration for the cards can be traced back to my visit in the Turku Art Museum showing works from the swedish surrealist Max Walter Svanberg – the powerful masks, colors and combination of forms have been tickling my brain ever since.

Avainsanat: #kuvataidekasvatus, #kuvitus

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5.10.2013 pisinreisii

Klassikot: Tomppa ja Kassu / Warm me, Tom.

There is two things to do when the pre-winter winds start blowing in the city: first to have soup that warms the body and soul oh-so-nicely and second, to wear a good coat. In my case the soup was Tom Kha Kai (yes, it is okay to imitate the asian style of pronunciation when saying this out loud) and the coat was a classic long, black, cashmere coat dating back ten years – but when it comes to classics, one can hardly go wrong.

On Thursday, my friends and me had the traditional vegan brunch, where everyone prepares a dish that they feel like cooking at that moment. For me, it has been sauces, dips and pastes with bread and various steaks or vegan balls, like falafels. So once again, I cooked soy-wheat steaks, spinach-potato breads and meze-style ezme (I cooked the red peppers in the oven first!) and aubergine-olive-hummus (I have befriended parsley!). My friend Anri and Aleksandr, had prepared the soup Tom Kha Kai (served with fresh coriander and chili paste) as well as a mushroom-tofu pie. The dessert was the perfect cake for the autumn nights with its spicy and rich taste, Marja had put less flour than the recipe said and the outcome was wonderfully moist. As an appetizer, we drank the champagne bottle that had lingered in our fridge from who-knows-where but it was not especially brilliant, just this basic bottle of sparkly. As a parting gift, Anri placed this heart-shaped plum that she had picked from her parents’ house in my hand and I really had to stop and admire it in its beauty.

In the photos, you can see one of my favorite bags that can be used as a packbag and then carried as a tote as well. And by purchasing it, I was able to support a great cause and the bag itself has been produced from Fair Trade cotton – what a great way to contribute! You should also check the page of the designer couple that are behind it – what a wonderful combination of ideology and design! People should stop complaining that Sweden has all these cool labels and designers, and instead get to know designers from around and support them.

P.S. If you have a really good paste, dip, sauce whatever recipe, please share it: my collection can always use a new addition!

Avainsanat: #klassikot, #saanajaolli, #vegaani

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