LIGHT OF MY LIFE

I've been interested in light for as long as I can remember. Light is everywhere and it affects the world and our daily lives in many ways. I'm from Finland and here the autumns and the winters last long and these seasons are very dark. I wanted to teach myself to use light as a medium and to be able to utilize the darkness that surrounds me during those seasons.

That's why I became who I am. A Light Artist.

I have worked with light around 25 years and I have worked in over 2,000 projects in a leading role. I started with theatre, dance and performing arts as a light designer, then i did exhibitions and worked hundreds of projects with different symphonic orchestras. I also did lots of events, operas and special projects. It started to be more and more intriguing to work outside on extreme conditions and use light in central role of the project not only as background, i started to be interested to create light-art.

I have worked with many historical sites and vulnerable sites. I have created light installations for several special sites like UNESCO HQ in Paris and Stonehenge in the United Kingdom. These are sites where nobody else didn’t get access to work with light-art. I’ve have executed very complex productions in large scale outdoors with temperatures variating from -45-degrees to +45 degrees of celsius.

I have worked also as a Technical and an Artistic Leader in several productions including festivals, operas, musicals, multi-art performances and opening ceremonies. I have curated also multiple light festivals. These projects have been executed on both, a national and international level.

On technical side i have been creating for a long time custom made lightsources with very precise optics, color and technology.

I also possess a large amount of technical equipment including around 3000pcs of outdoor Led lights where most of them are custom made for my work. There is soundsystems, LED-walls, cabeling and structures that i use only for my own projects.

Light is a really powerful tool and I believe that we can draw focus to any site, city, or value using light art.  My plan is to work on an unseen scale with unique sites and push the limits of light art into new dimensions.

This will create a new level of impact in raising awareness on many topics and not even the sky is the limit for my work.

Nothing is impossible; it is just a matter of deciding how much you want to use your energy towards achieving it.