Comme Femme - Speaking as a Woman (1998) was my final thesis at Lahti Institute of Design, Finland. In this series I reflect on the challenges of feminism and the essence of femininity. In addition to symbolic selfportraits, I photographed divorced women. This series symbolized the liberation from the shackles of society and finding oneself as a woman.

Major part of the work was done while studying in Höhere Schule for Gestating in Zürich (CH). With this series I was invited to International Photography Triennial Lumo in Jyväskylä in 1998 and into a solo exhibition at the Finnish French Institute in Paris in 1999.

Virtual Horizon (2000) suggest to a virtual, real or psychological horizon. A word virtual is based on presumption that horizon does not really exist but is an optical illusion because the earth is round. Picturing a horizon by drawing is easy because only one horizontal line is needed. Virtual horizon suggest also towards different kinds of virtual or mental experiences of horizon and infinity, for example through television or computer. It also reflects on sensing a landscape or space itself and also the ownership of it. Horizon is an abstract concept, in a same way than landscape/space is abstract to a blind person. One of the photographs symbolizes unrecognizable script for people who see. The text says Landscape is abstract for a blind. My meaning here was that while a blind person can’t see an image and a person who is capable to see can’t understand it.Some of these pictures are like archetypes of a landscape, sometimes I am trying to push them towards being kitsch. These are for example sunrises and sunsets. In some of the images the presence of human beings and they great achievements can be seen (Two small red cars on the mountains and British well flattened green grass rectangle). Some of the constructed or real landscapes and spaces refer to a chaos, war or loss. 

Roleplay (1996) was my first solo exhibition at VB Photo Center’s cellar, in Kuopio, Finland. To make this exhibition happen I received my first grant ever from The Finnish Cultural Foundation. Roleplay talked about sexuality and self-discovery and becoming independent from the childhood family.

The exhibition consisted of photographs, mainly portraits, printed on painted transparencies. The photos were displayed in light cabinets hanging from the ceiling.