Takas kotti

Rauma, the town of lace

paintings on the rock

lace of a "sea spider"

I am back in Tampere after a nice time in Rauma.

I´ll visit your blogs as soon as possible, my dear blog friends,

see you:) Leena

Curious Mind

 

Improvisaatiota ja siipien rakennusta

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Performance art lessons were about improvisation ( and space, time, art and identity ) 

I also was creating wings of black lace.

Gonna fly soon?

Days of no worries

B u t t e r f l y

is the theme of this week´s drawing challenge. 

Thank you, Nadine, for inviting me:)
See Nadine´s lovely blog Tiny Woolf and  all the participants of this week.

Well, when thinking of butterflies I think about summer, sun and warmth.
And wings, symbolizing freedom and happiness: fluttering days of no worries.. 

These are my works or details of them, related to this theme and ideas.
Paintings are acrylic or oil on canvas.
The first picture is a detail of  a mixed media piece, see here to see all of it.
The water photo below is from a tiny little romantic river.
There our son proposed his girl friend  - and the answer was yes; now they are married:) .

The music is by my favorite a cappella group in Finland, Rajaton (= Boundless ).

Rajaton, Butterfly

   

Lace of life/ elämän reikäommel

Hangella näkyy äitini tekemä reikäommel, sydänverellä kirjailtu.

Tinakulhon kuvio toistuu saveni valannassa, sen värit ovat kuin helmikuu. 

Sängyn päädyssä on meidän maiseman merihorisontti, tuijotamme sitä haaveillen kesästä.

Auringon tarkka piirto leikkaa esiin iän tuomat uurteet hetkeksi unohtuneisiin hedelmiin.

Memento mori, kaiken katoavaisuus, muistan sen. Ja memento vivere, muistan eläväni, ennen kaikkea.

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Lace, made by my mother, long ago, remains me of snow of February as well as the forms and colors I made in clay.
In the end of the bed there is the horizon and we remember summer.
The brightness of the northern sun has no mercy on the forgotten fruits.;
memento mori, everything vanishes.And memento vivere, remember to live, I do.

The Month Of The Pearls/ Helmi Kuu

 

 

 

 Helmikuu on helmi kuu:
hangilla timantteja ja helmiä,
valo joka hemmottelee,
aurinko, joka ei lämmitä,
tietoisuus siitä että kevät tulee.

Viitisen vuotta sitten tehdyissä keraamisissa veistoksissa olen käyttänyt
raku/punasavea, raumanpitsiä ja  ruostunutta rautalankaa.

Lenni-Kalle Taipale, Saarni

Rauma lace 
Last year

February - in Finnish helmikuu =  pearl month - is full of light.

It is bright, sunny and very cold ( right now -20C!)
I see pearls and diamonds in the snow... 

It would not surprise me to meet a snowfairy, there is magic in the air.

The art works are made several years ago. I made them of clay, lace of my old home town and thin, rusty iron wire.