The measuring-wheel-pencil, which I've used to create the works displayed in this exhibition, measures the length of a drawn line. Its use requires precision so that the meter registers the distance traveled only when the pen leaves a mark on the surface. Thus, the user has fewer opportunities to focus e.g. on the composition of the work being processed.

In this way, I feel I can achieve a similar randomness in my drawings as can be found, for example, in unintentional scratches and other wear on building surfaces. As an example, I consider the scratches caused by the edge of a trash can on the wall of a dumpster enclosure. With my measuring wheel drawings, my intention is to explore the idea of unintentional scratches left by garbage collectors and the trash cans they operate, and thereby, a freer identity in creating visual art and its effects on the experience of being.

I also see viewing the measuring wheel works as a metaphor for being in the moment or non-being: they offer the viewer the possibility to either be at the mercy of an abstract mass of lines or to choose an intellectualized thought from the available line length information and thus disrupt the impression of uncontrollability with specific knowledge.
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2.–28.6.2024

Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki
Photos: Juuso Noronkoski

Measured,

”48.5 m / 60 m” (2024, 41.2 x 30.8 cm with frames) is a drypoint print. I also call it as ”a measure within a measure” study. As I drew 48.5 meters of scratches on a copper plate with the help of my measuring wheel, I simultaneously walked a distance of 60 meters. I started scratching the copper plate at the same moment I began my walk. When the work was completed, I measured the distance I traveled. In this ”measure within a measure” / ”48.5 m/60 m” piece, my idea was to provide a creation story for the measuring wheel work by reducing the story to the measured length. Of course, the walk and the work itself occurred at a specific time in a specific location, but by condensing this into a measured length, the whole is given an additional dimension: a measure within a measure.
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”3719 m”, 2023, diptych, graphite on canvas, 140 x 220 cm
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”100 m (small I)”, 2024, graphite on paper, frames, 45.2 x 35.8 cm
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”100 m (small II)”, 2024, graphite on paper, frames, 45.2 x 35.8 cm
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”1000 meters IV”, 2022, graphite on paper, frames, 47.5 x 64.5 cm
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”1000 meter line”, 2024, graphite on paper, wooden holders, magnets, aluminium tins.

”1000 meter line” is practically a thousand meters long line drawn on ten long strips of 1.5 cm x 10000 cm sized paper. The work is also a counterpart to the ”1000 meters IV” piece, where the same length of lines are fitted onto a sheet of paper.

Here the drawn 1k line is, in a way, simplified by ”detaching it” from ”1000 meter IV”’s mess of separate lines, bringing them together into one unified line.
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”Black Paper (1870 m)”, 2023, graphite on paper, frames, 48 x 65 cm

In this work my aim was to find out how many meters of graphite line I needed to fill an A2-size paper. Despite the more or less black first impression of the work, the lines stand out in a multi-layered and in a constantly changing manner, depending on the viewing angle.
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Measuring-wheel-pencil
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A group exhibition together with Jaakko Hukkanen and Toni Elg
31.1.–11.2.2023
Galerie Pleiku, Berlin
Photos: Toni Elg

Hukkanen, Elg, Terho

”5000 m”, 2022, graphite on canvas, 130 x 130 cm
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A group exhibition together with Outi Forstén and Milja Havas
12.–15.4.2024
Venetsiatalo, Helsinki
Photos: Henri Salonen

Merkillisiä tähteitä ja Leijuvia hedelmiä

My part of the exhibition consisted of a poetry zine,
with the original illustration artworks also exhibited.
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All pencil drawings are about A5 size and made c.2021
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