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Artist in Residence · Celle × Hämeenlinna · Kaputa Association

DIGITAL GARDEN

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A garden made of stories.
It grows with every encounter.

Eight people standing side by side in front of yellow and blue paintings in the exhibition room 15 photos · 1 video
Story 14

Kiitos, Hämeenlinna

A long table, all the pictures laid out and the people of two weeks. The farewell and its thanks.

View along the gallery wall, framed photographs and beyond them the bright room with yellow chairs 11 photos · 2 videos
Story 13

They begin to live

The exhibition is hung: a small selection, plain mats, the QR code beside it. It stays here.

Double bathing jetty with a green runway leading into a still lake 5 photos · 2 videos
Story 12

A gallery for Hämeenlinna

The pictures stay in Finland: online gallery, QR code next to the prints, printed and framed locally.

Strictly trimmed row of trees like a green cloud above a meadow 12 photos
Story 11

Ten thousand steps a day

Weeks on foot through Hämeenlinna, more than 1,500 photos, and two series that could not be more different.

Anu straightening an oil portrait of Alexander Stubb on the wall, more Stubb caricatures beside it 16 photos
Story 10

Eleven views of the same man

Visiting the caricaturists' guild's annual show: on Stubb as caricature of the year, cartridge portraits and a reunion with Tommi Lundberg.

Band playing in the sunny courtyard in front of the light wooden facade of Kulttuurikonttori 5 photos
Story 09

The one who connects

On Minttu, a pianist passing through, and the future of the exchange between Celle and Hämeenlinna.

Bright gallery room with a large shop window to the street, small framed watercolours on the walls 10 photos · 1 video
Story 08

Blueberry cake and quiet pictures

Visiting Tuire at Galleria Noste: on small formats, an old association and an afternoon under trees.

Terho crouching on the gravel, greeting a golden retriever 22 photos · 1 video
Story 07

A day with Terho, who seems to know everyone

Printer, frames, yard flea market: a day at the side of Hämeenlinna's photography legend, ending in a painter's house.

Terho walking away on a narrow plank path between tall thuja trunks 10 photos
Story 06

A forest planted for love

The Tuijametsä at Aulanko, and the story of the man who built it for a woman who never came.

Evening circle of chairs, people and a dog in a garden in front of a brick house 9 photos
Story 05

By the fire, on a night that never fell

An evening by the fire, a conversation about energy, and the Finnish word that knows my idea of home.

Two large skeleton figures of painted wood, one on a motorcycle 21 photos · 3 videos
Story 04

A festival for the dead, built in an old cloth mill

A Mexican festival for the dead, built by two Finns. On death, the body, humour and a question that stays.

Courtyard at Ämykesä with tents, flea market stalls and an apartment block behind 19 photos
Story 03

Where the creative heart of the town beats

Ämykesä 2026 in the Kulttuurikonttori courtyard. Music, flea market, clothes swap, many conversations.

Lady Misty May modelling in front of a red-lit arch, flowers in her hair 14 photos
Story 02

When the body becomes a stage

Croquis with Lady Misty May at Museo Skogster, on Finland's Day of Visual Arts.

Photographs by Roman Thomas on a bright wall 12 photos · 3 videos
Story 01

Arriving in the north

A yellow house between theatre and school, a first evening at Kulttuurikonttori, my own pictures on new walls.