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weekend #25 – Happy Midsummer!

  Leppoisaa juhannsta kaikille!   Happy Midsummer!         I watched a video on YouTube trying to learn how to paint a cherry,   not perfect but it was good practise!   made with acrylics     Paint Party Friday      

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weekend #24 – Kaarina Kaikkonen’s art

  but first my entry for   Paint Party Friday     abstract, no name, acrylics       and now Kaarina Kaikkonen´s installation “A Waltz to Life”   in The Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland   ‘In honor of the museum´s 50th anniversary artist Kaarina Kaikkonen has designed an installation of 2000 used shirts,

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shoes – what are they made of?

  Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny day in Helsinki.   A couple of more days and all the snow is gone! 🙂         I had shopping to do. On my way back home I was wondering why the bus floor was so soft… I sat down and looked at my shoe –

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blogging break…

…I don’t know when I’ll have time to blog again…..might be next week or next year… I’m far too busy here in Helsinki right now packing and moving. We sold one place and bought another. I have a zillion papers to go trough and either archive or destroy them… Clothes, old this and that, what

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more art in Kiasma and snow in Helsinki!

My previous post from Kiasma is here. Beautiful mandala type of work…     glittering skulls…   My eyes like mandala pattern…     I really like Ian Davenport‘s art (as well as Jason Martin’s!) 🙂 This is called Puddle Painting: magenta   1. detail of the painting     2. detail of the painting

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a winter day in Helsinki, Finland…

photos of the weekend #48                                 Not a good week for shadows but at least I got a few reflections 🙂     Shadow Shot Sunday   Sundays In My City   * Have a great weekend!   *  

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Jason Martin: Midnight

Last week I went to KIASMA – Museum of Contemporary Art and I fell in love! I saw this Jason Martin‘s piece of art and I was wordless. I walked back and forth and stared this beautiful work.           aaaaaah…… 🙂   (click to enlarge image)     ‘Puritan‘ More Jason’s

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busy in Helsinki…

Hi everyone!   I don’t have enough hours in my days! Too much to do. Winter, I mean real winter, is here. It’s dark in the morning, it’s dark in the afternoon. Temperature today – 6 C > 21.2 F windchill -12 C > 10.39 F More snow tomorrow and Wednesday… Forcast for Thursday: –

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snow in Helsinki, Finland!

photos of the weekend #46 It’s been snowing in Helsinki! On Thursday 18.11.2010 morning it looked like this…                               Maple leaves 2.10.2010 and   the same little hill with snow 18.11.2010       Shadow Shot Sunday   Sundays in My

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photos of the weekend #41

photos of the weekend #41 “On 7 June 2010, the Helsinki Central railway station was officially renamed Helsingin päärautatieasema-Helsingfors centralstation (Helsinki main railway station, or Helsinki central railway station) in Finnish and Swedish, replacing the previous official name Helsingin rautatieasema-Helsingfors järnvägsstation (Helsinki railway station). The Finnish transport bureau use “Helsinki C” as a shorthand, and

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