Last One

Landscape and nature heal the scars of war and the events and people who created them become forgotten.

Last One 26.5, 2015
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 35, 2015
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 60"

Last One 34, 2015
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 31, 2015
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 33, 2015
acrylic, oil, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 32, 2014
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 36"

Last One 21, 2013
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 46"

Last One 30, 2014
acrylic, canvas, 46" x 48"

Last One 29 (большой конфликт), 2014
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 28, 2014
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 27, 2014
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 60"

Last One 26, 2014
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 23, 2013
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 60"

Last One 25, 2013
acrylic, canvas, 72" x 60"

Last One 24, 2013
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 60"

Last One 22, 2013
acrylic, oil, canvas, 48" x 46"

Last One 20, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 72" x 60"

Last One 11, 2012
acrylic, oil, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 19, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 60"

Last One 18, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 17, 2012
acrylic, oil, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 16, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 84" x 72"

Last One 15, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 46" x 48"

Last One 14, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 13, 2012
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 12 , 2011
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 10, 2011
acrylic, canvas, 72" x 60"

Last One 9, 2011
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 8, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 48" x 60"

Last One 7, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

Last One 6, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 72" x 60"

Last One 5, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 72"

Last One 4, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 72" x 60"

Last One 3, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 84" x 72"

Last One 2, 2010
acrylic, canvas, 72" x 84"

Last One 1, 2009
acrylic, canvas, 60" x 48"

In Last One, modernist, constructivist methods of rearranging pictorial space are used to reflect on the scars that wars have left behind, mentally and physically, but also the way that landscape and nature heal these scars and how the events and people who created them become forgotten.

The source material for this body of work is images of ruins of the once mighty fortifications of the Mannerheim Line, built to protect Finland from the advances of the Soviet military avant-garde. Finland’s attempt was valiant, and ultimately the country maintained its sovereignty although it lost 11% of its territory; this war and the lives that were lost in 1939 are rarely remembered. The fortification lie in ruins, and nature is slowly reclaiming them.