Cityscapes - Helsinki

My architectural work emerges from the space between memory and place. After decades of living abroad, I returned to Finland only to find that “home” no longer felt familiar. I exist in a state of in-betweenness—always observing, never fully settled. That emotional tension fuels my art.

I work primarily with textiles, exploring how we remember, how we belong, and how environments hold our emotional histories.

In my textile tufting, I create geometrical cityscapes drawn from my own photographs of Helsinki and other cities I’ve inhabited. Using machine tufting and carefully chosen yarn colours, I translate memories of space and movement into tactile, geometric compositions. The colours aren’t literal—they are emotional responses to place, reshaped by time and longing.

Art, for me, is not an escape. It’s how I re-enter—how I make sense of dislocation, how I reconnect. Through rhythm, repetition, and intuition, I find ways to belong again