Before going to Luovake, I had a plan of not having a plan. I wanted to know as little as I could about Jyväskylä, to be as alienated from the place as possible. The only thing I knew that I wanted to do was to work with liquid light.

I spent the first week trying to make sense of the place. I walked around the city and the
forest infiltrating it. Gleaning colored nightlights, beeswax, bark, copper, zinc, words,
oddities, and roots.

The following weeks I spent in the darkroom. I had a hard time getting the emulsion to
stick to the materials. This mistake intrigued me, and I wanted to learn how to control
the dissolving emulsion. It acted differently on different materials, and I produced piles
of failed experiments.

I ended my stay by making two installations with these experiments and presented them
under an artist talk. I made one under the lights of the studio and one in the darkroom.
In the darkroom I used the enlargers as light sources and turned the drying cabinet into
a light box.