Photography and the Desire of Inorganic

I examine body, humanity and nature – especially water in different states, air, stones and sand –
mental and verbal images, sexuality and fantasies of neutral gender, through Desire.
I raise to the surface ideas of the bond between natural and human and organic and inorganic,
as well as the importance of existence, the impossible and the possible in Nature,
and only through photograph.
I also examine the distance that is created by aerial photography from the ground:
the disappearance of forms and the smoothness of surfaces leads to inorganic –
outside of the photographs, to memories.

1. Maspalomas Dunes, 2009
Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Aluminium plate primed digital print

The pristine, paradise-like beaches, and the warm sand under one’s feet.
Sand is smooth, but grainy and will stick to your toes.
The deeper I push my foot into the sand, the cooler the sand is, and the harder it sticks to my skin.
Déjà vu – bare feet and the first touch to the ground.
A sandy beach is a defined area where human territories overlap.
A place where humans and time meet – where human becomes real;
organic wraps itself into inorganic and makes it alive.

2. Fountain in Place D’Albertas, 2010
Aix-en-Provence, France
Aluminium plate primed digital print

The water feature is an example of a combination of organic and inorganic created by man.
It is a symbol of desire created by man, a structure that reflects the flow of the eternal stream of life.
The elixir of life – water, with which one can reach eternal immortality by simply drinking it.
Its purpose is also to refresh and cleanse, but first and foremost it is a monument,
a place to meet at and a symbol, where the servant is water.

3. Icicles, 2006
Old Mill, Köyliö, Finland

Aluminium plate primed digital print Ice is one of the water’s three inorganic states.
An icicle revokes a memory from childhood, it is shaped like an ice pop, and it demands to be sucked and eaten.
It is not permanent and will melt when held in had; this makes it both untouchable and desirable.
Ice will break easily, but its exotic, untouchable and desirable aspects will be preserved forever in a photograph.

4. Fridge Magnets, 2010
Tapanila, Helsinki, Finland
Aluminium plate primed digital print

Magnets would no exist without stone – not even fridge magnets.
Magnets bought as souvenirs retain the touch and spirit of the place where they are from;
first and foremost they retain the memory of “I’ve been there.”
Through travel I sense new things, places and people: I feel, see, hear, smell and I am fulfilled.
Magnets are able to create that strong recollection, regardless of their cheap image.
To travel is a pleasure, but it is always good to come home…
Though they are just inorganic bric-a-brac, the shine and smoothness of their surface make the magnets desirable.

5. Small Car on a Tree Branch, 2010
Fallkulla, Helsinki, Finland
Aluminium plate primed digital print

Through the photographs facts and events become reality. In Nature everything is not possible,
but because of nature’s ability to transform due to human influence, impossible things,
events and phenomena are sometimes possible. Still life with a little car on a snowy tree branch is unreal.
In the photograph, desire to inorganic arises from an idea, a car on tree branch, which is impossible.
In the Photograph desire comes true: the interface between organic and inorganic is fluid – it might disappear.

6. Seafarer’s Graffiti on a Stonewall, 2009
Puerto de Mogan, Canary Islands, Spain
Aluminium plate primed digital print

The layers of paint on stonewall speak for existence.
In graffiti, the traces left by humans and the eternity of stone as an inorganic material are combined.
Together the stone and the graffiti create a permanent memory, which is the picture of desire.
The stonewall encloses also fossils; rock created out of muddy sediments from the sea floor,
memories of times gone by, of life forms, of people gone forever.
The presence of death and the knowledge that life can end at any moment, is reflected in graffiti;
it is like a premature gravestone. Since there is no certainty of the future,
it is the mark of the last point in the journey; “I exist. I visited this place. I was here.”