Flesh and Snow — a series about life and transformation in a new environment. Personality is multilayered, and one of its key layers is the environment in which we live. When this layer disappears, the old “self” disappears too: familiar sensations, rhythms, smells, light — everything that shaped the old identity no longer exists.
I came here as an adult. The space is not a continuation of the body, but a surface to explore. At first, it is intense and painful: the world feels too loud, too bright, too close. But with the disappearance of the old layer, a new one opens — alive, yet unformed.
Through Finnish wool, I create this new layer for myself. The material becomes a bridge between inner and outer worlds: white and creamy wool — my snow, foreign yet soft, a surface to lie on, feel, and explore. In some works, patches of viscose appear — a mouth, eyes, fragments of a face. This is not a restoration of the lost “self,” but the creation of new organs of perception.
Large white surfaces — the space of a new environment; a small warm body — me, not yet merged with the world. Between the “no longer” and the “not yet,” a new “self” forms, learning to exist here and now, through material, through sensation, through creation.
Detail from the series “Flesh and Snow”, 2025
Detail from the series “Flesh and Snow”, 2025
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