The Finnish newspaper Pohjalainen published an article about Big Red and the upcoming events at Stundars titled, “Big Red Stundarisin lastenjuhlien ihastus.” This proves that it pays to smash into reporters with a big inflatable suit before they write an article about you. Now I have to learn a bit of Finnish to see whatContinue Reading

Merja Vasikkaniemi of YLE came to the Stundars Museum along with representatives from the Swedish and Finnish speaking newspapers in Vaasa. Gunilla invited the media to Stundars to promote the July 1st Children’s Day at the museum. She asked be to show my suit to the media. I blew the suit up instantly grabbing theContinue Reading

I bicycled into Vaasa with Big Red for the first time today. Peter Rosvik, who goes by Peppe, from Platform in Vaasa came by to snap some pictures. In the middle of Vaasa is a large public square. I stared the performance there and then roamed through the streets amusing the many people sitting inContinue Reading

Sewing together inflatables requires a lot of planning. For my new work I have finished most of the planning and have transitioned into fabrication. This new work will be purple, orange and pink. It resembles a pile of fabric now but soon it will be roaming the streets of Vaasa.

Ulrika Stagnäs of YLE came to the Stundars Museum to cover the upcoming Children’s Day. Gunilla Sand and I split time in a live Swedish radio broadcast. Gunilla talked about Children’s Day and the upcoming activities at Stundars. I inflated Big Red even though the audience could not see it on radio. Ulrika asked questionsContinue Reading

Malakta hosts various events that promote culture in the Malax region. On Wednesday they hosted a band that played original music as well as various covers. I found out about the concert while attending the opening at Malakta on Sunday. The music crowd promised to be younger so I thought it would be a goodContinue Reading

I joined an English speaking tour of some of the buildings at the Stundars Museum where I am a resident artist at Ateljé Stundars. There are many buildings on the Stundars property but we only visited a few. We saw an old farm house, a shop and a herbal healer’s house. The rain made theContinue Reading

Jimmy Kuehnle’s Big Red and Walking Fish from The Prime Eights. This is the new video from Angela Guerra and Mark Walley of The Prime Eights Design. They made a short film about my recent work for Glasstire.com. It features Big Red in the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas and Walking Fish in a performanceContinue Reading

I visited the Söderfjärden meteor crater just outside the village of Solf. The meteor struck nearly 520 million years ago. The crater is well preserved and in the 1930s farmers dug canals by hand to drain the crater. Now it is farmland and a sanctuary for migrating cranes. The visitor center is a transported buildingContinue Reading