Category: ENGLISH
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Pre-architectures
There are moment in life when the need to be close to something light, airy, primary, and quiet grows so big that it is a blessing to stumble, often by accident, upon exhibitions, books, music… that fill that precise need. I spent last Sunday afternoon with forensic architecture and The Nebelivka Hypothesis. It put my…
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Thoughts on pinhole photography
“Why take photos with a pinhole camera?” a friend asked. This came to mind: One – allow yourself to be out of control, at least to some extent. Two – stretch time. It’s only after some waiting that you’ll see what you caught on film. Expect nothing and get surprised. Every time. Three – be…
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In Progress
J.K. Pikkujamsa: Transit I (2024) My latest project is Transit, a multidisciplinary exploration of the relationship between people, public space and the viewer. I don’t know yet where this project will take me, but I do know that its progress will be seen sporadically in different forms and unexpected places in due course. The first…
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Concrete Dreams
Poonam Jolly: Concrete Dreams: Notes on Ecology, Economy and Architecture. A Review by Jarmo Pikkujamsa 27 October 2023. When did you last have someone plump up your mattress to avoid back problems? And have you had the fortune of having a gardener who doesn’t doze off while watering your plants? Poonam Jolly’s Concrete Dreams: Notes…
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Attention
I searched for guitar lessons and put out the word and then other words and other words and in the end I felt that I had found the right tune even without the guitar.
J.K. Pikkujämsä 