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This morning, I tried to wake up around 5am so that I can immerse myself in the blue world of the morning. Sound of the alarm from the phone annoyed me and woke me up. Walking in the thin darkness, I thought about how my day will go and what can be done to make this morning as amazing as possible. I put the kettle on the stove and turned up the heat of it.I scooped 3 spoons of ground coffee beans directly from the bag and placed it into a French press plunger.Pouring the hot

I cancelled my subscription to Spotify today. I was listening to the music or podcast on Spotify for 10 hours or more in a day for 10 years or so.I have been always wearing the earphone and trying to distract myself from my own thoughts and the noisy world around me. In the early years, I got so excited for this app because I can listen to any kind of music. I can download and listen to my favourite albums and artists anytime. That was really a big moment of my life. I no lon

I am having this low energy state for 2 weeks. Yesterday, I could not do anything.And this appetite! I have had hunger for whole day. There were5 meal times．One thing I achieved yesterday is going to psychiatrist and talk with her.I felt physically tired and mentally exhausted. I ate a lot and that made me dozy.Time passed super fast and I spent 3 days living like that. This can be called "burn out", or "fatigue". Apparently, exercise and good sleep is essential for recovery

On Sunday, 25th January, I conducted a workshop titled Making with “others”. The purpose of the workshop is to explore how to collaborate with more-than-human beings. The idea of this workshop came from the course my partner took at Oulu University. I became interested in this concept last year and am eager to apply it to my artistic practice. As a painter, I have been making the works to depict them, but not collaborate with them. Parasta Lapsille Oulu offered the workshop o

I am making the presentation for the 3 hours workshop at Oulu Taidemuseo. My workshop will be about multti-species collaboration in artmaking. I am doing a research about multi species and encountered many interesting ideas and concepts, so I note them down here. Perspectism, new animism, social environment(mille), and environmental artists who makes amazing collaborative works such as Hamish Fulton, Andy Goldoworthy, Richard Long, Fiona MacDonald, and so on. Now, I am in lit