Teemu Salonen | Puska

“When I start to realize a sculpture, I have both an accurate and inaccurate picture of what kind of work will be created in the end. The extreme points of the forms of the work usually remain as I have thought in my first sketches, but otherwise the forms, materials and colours come to life as the work is built. Even though I do everything with my own hands regarding my own decisions, at the same time I’m still in a way just riding and watching what happens, and I trust that the next steps and technical solutions will arise naturally. Almost always, the work in progress provides inspiration for the following works, i.e. making is in a way a self-sufficient perpetual motion machine.”