Photographs by Pekka Mäkinen.
And this was my dressing room decorated by Marcia!
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The first pink flower on our backyard.
My daughter noticed this one the other morning and dashed to see what it was like! Just a beauty, a miracle in the midst of the chaos.
…ordered some mineral make-up that arrived today…
kind of therapeutic in the middle of all the difficulties, questions, tasks, pain, work…
Had a conversation about the regional dance centre here and one person who thinks maybe a bit too highly of herself in relation to the dance centre. Who censors conversation, looks at art and dance with a quite narrow mind, who so strongly believes in her own view that cannot accept, acknowledge, respect, value or even listen to other views. Who thinks she’s always right. Who thinks she knows everything. I don’t really care about other people’s castles in the air but when they’re built in the costs of a larger community who this person thinks she has a right speak for without understanding, acknowledging, accepting or valuing the rest of the community, the differing opinions, then I just think it’s ignorant and quite stupid.
Johanna
Lot’s to think about. Have been in touch with the ministry of foreign affairs about inviting some foreign guests to ANTI –festival and got for a change quite excited about the possibilities. It would be so great if we could invite a couple of international editors and a few directors and curators to the next festival and highlight the international position of ANTI. I had a Skype session with Gregg and as usual, it felt really good to go through things with him. His visiting Kuopio next week and I’m so much looking forward to planning the festival and going through the applications with him. The association behind the festival has its annual meeting next week and today two new members joined our association, hurray!
Last night I was totally wiped out by the acupuncture treatment. I had to go to bed at something like 7.30 pm and I woke up when Pekka came home from work after 9 pm. The treatment was really good; it’s pretty amazing how you can feel your meridians running down the spine, across the back, from the neck down to the arm etc. Jori did also some cupping to me and the marks on my back are pretty intense… I’ve felt much better with my shoulder and neck today but I ended up doing too much cleaning and household stuff tonight. And that was because it turned out that my daughter has pinworms! Disgusting. They have had them in her day care but I have never ever had them in my family before. So I had to buy the medicine for all of us and wash all bed linen, towels, toys, bathroom…well, I might be overreacting a bit but I truly find it horrifying. Pinworms are very common, apparently, but I’m definitely shocked and upset.
I’m planning to work at the Blue House tomorrow, there are a few things that need to be sorted out and decided soon. Some work needs to be done as well but I’m not going to sit by the computer all day.
Hope you are well.
Johanna
If you haven’t made a reservation yet and want to see the new work premiering tonight, there are still a few places left for Saturdays performances at 5 pm and 9 pm. Email or text me for reservations.
See you!
Johanna
This is just a quick hello. I’m off now, my taxi is picking me up at 5.20 am. I’ll meet Gregg Whelan in London and then continue to Glasgow. It’s really freezing here at the moment, something like -35 degrees and I just hope the planes are on time.
So the next five days will be busy with seeing work and having meetings. I don’t know how much I will be near internet connection but I’ll keep you posted.
Hope to see you all in Glasgow.
Johanna
I had a meeting with Esa from Gatto kitchen in the morning. I have a pretty clear idea about our new kitchen that we have outlined with the architect of the Blue House Satu Ratinen. But still there are a lot of possibilities in terms of colours and shades, materials, equipment and all kinds of details. I’ve had meetings with three kitchen companies and now it seems that the choice is going to be between Domus and Gatto. In both cases, the material is pretty comparable, but the colour is somewhat different. In Gatto’s case the cupboards and boxes would be quite dark but in a kind of grey shade and in Domus’s plan the boxes below the work top would be black ash and the top cupboards from zebrano. In both plans the cold line would be from Festivo and from Gatto the other kitchen electronics from Smeg. With Domus we haven’t really decided on the oven, dishwasher etc. But I guess I still could by the Smeg dishwasher, oven and the cooker from Gatto even if I wouldn’t buy the cupboards.
Well, lot’s to think about. And the real issue here is that I’m so aware of the vast possibilities. If I didn’t order all the interior design magazines I wouldn’t know so much about all kinds of possibilities and materials. So I can only blame the decade long addict of ordering Avotakka, Koti ja Keittiö, Plaza, Living etc., deko, Meidän talo…!
I must say that one important thing for me is also the fact that Domus is a Finnish company and Gatto’s stuff is ordered from Italy. And since we are building an eco house, I definitely prefer the local suppliers – although that principle can be overruled for the sake of good design…
We have had a very unusual winter with no snow and temperature staying on top of the 0. Today wasn’t cold but it snowed a lot. It feels like all the snow we have missed since November fell down today. The kids are excited, of course.
We haven’t had time to visit my partner’s mom for about 9 months, but now we decided that we are going to visit her for the weekend and rest from the house building. So I’m looking forward to having saunas, sitting by the fireplace and enjoying the joy of my daughter spending time with her grandma.
Johanna
Hello everyone, and welcome to my new blog. As you can see there is not much around here right now. However, this will change in the weeks and months to come. So, come back soon and often to read all about me and my work.
Johanna
