Tarja Saikkonen

I've always been an observer, how I see and feel the life, has a lot to do with my art.

As I find myself as an artist who thinks she doesn't have the right skills to write or talk, I tend to believe that it is important for me to have the courage to trust. Trust that the insights are shown in the work. To me, these insights are of more value than all the words in the world. And hopefully these images and visions are realized by others, on some subliminal level.

Waiting for tomorrow will not make things better. Finding ourselves in each second of existence can remove us from the future and the past, for then we are present. Only in presence may one find peace. The economy is separate from ourselves. The world is separate from us. Only when we find ourselves, are we one with others, regardless of what they do. Recovery does not come tomorrow - it is in this moment with everything we do.

In my opinion, you create change, when you make people think. When sharing my works, I want to achieve this, without being too provocative.

Those who are ready to see, can see.


Gupla Art is made with a mixed technique, using recycled materials. The works of art are three dimensional, situated in the twilight zone of art and design...

EDUCATION:
2001-2004 Business Studies, Finnish Business College, Helsinki
Customer Services and Marketing
1996-1999 Upper secondary school graduate
Kallio Senior Secondary School of Performing art
-1996 Primary school Tapiola Comprehensive School, Music Class