JIMMY KUEHNLE

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.

I took a trip to Tampere with a guy from Solf nicknamed Masse. He plans to take a trip to London in order to visit his sister. Instead of buying a cheap ticket on Ryan Air he is going by moped. We took the trip to look for a motor scooter for him so heContinue Reading

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

Midsummer is a special time in Finland and the other northern countries. Approaching the solstice the sun barely sets and there are many festivals and parties. In Finland most people gather in summer cottages in the country. I went to two separate summer cottages for midsummer celebrations. At both places we ate dinner, sang songs,Continue 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 met some people the other day that run an alternative space in an old dairy factory in Malax, Finland. The dairy was called Malakta, a combination of Malax and milk, and the gallery kept the name. The show had paintings from local artists in the community. Everything was fairly standard fair except for theContinue 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

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

This week has been cold and I had hoped that this afternoon would be a bit warmer but it remained chilly. It is strange weather because it is sunny for most of the day. Coming from the dry desert of New Mexico the wet wind here seems to cut right through my clothes. I rodeContinue Reading