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Hey everyone

Soooo since the last time we talked, there have been many many new things happening. I live in my studio now, which is good and bad, good for work, bad for soaking in the culture. None the less, I have managed to make it out to do some good old art watching. First on the list, I recently saw a show of chinese artists, mostly video. Highlights for me were Yu Xudong pill and candy. here is a link with a few stills from the piece. Also there was Cao Fei with is piece Cos Players. All in all an interesting show, the work, i think, (at least to the best of my translation from estonian) was about celebrating life and taking a step back from the seriousness of it all. Very cool. And if you know me, you kow that it takes a lot for video work to impress me...

so next, in helsinki, at the Finnish contemproary arts museum Kiasma a show on the role of landscape in contemporary art. A great show if i may say so. There was your conventional Long, Morris, and Oppenheim that you might expect in this kind of show, but also A few Finnish artists that really stole the show for me. One, Tuula Närhinen and her piece wind tracers. She noticed that the wind, while playing a vital part in the experience of the land, disapears in almost all forms of landscape. so she puts bright lights on tree branches and photographs them with long exposure time so that the wind moving the branch traces a light path on the film. Very cool. Also, in sculpture department Lauri Astala Songlines. This peice was my favorite. play the audio at this link to get a better feel for things.

In other news, I have been set up with a few exhibitions, a solo show at the sculpture Gallery, as well as the Erasmus show in the old town. Also In a group show with some students from the Finnish art academy on the Paldiski penninsula. here.

no real other news, other than busting ass and finally making some reasonable art. I found a bag of old soviet gasmasks.... hmmm what to do with those?
also rusting stuff and puting it on things, hanging stuff.

I have also started doing drawings of trucks and tools with cosmetics on glass. they are fun, but not really that interesting. Well whatever. hope all is well there, I probably should spell check this but i am not going to. too bad i guess. maybe pictures soon.