Mark



  1. Unique work ︎︎︎
  2. Creative Collaboration ︎︎︎
  3. Industrial Design ︎︎︎
  4. Small Series ︎︎︎
  5. Glass Art ︎︎︎


  6. Through my work I am seeking answers: How to design so that objects could be manufactured in series – reasonably – while keeping them unique? How to connect with individuals on a deeper level? And how it relates to art?


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Mark





1. The Magic of Unique Work


I find the classification as a designer as something problematic for me. It is too broad and general of a concept to describe my work. On the other hand, I like the room it gives. A designer can design for a series, but also for something unique and artistic in its content.

I would like to call myself an applied art designer. It gives me the right kind of title for my artistic thinking and enables creating content already before tangible, physical design. Things happen in this order in my case: The visual form is the last dimension that calls to interact with the object.

Individuality, uniqueness – personal and delicately chosen details are the spice and passion of my work. They are the things I want to immerse myself in. Applied art is my true calling. I find that I am privilegded, when I can work for it – diversely and unconditionally.

Creativity is my most important recource, I cherish it in every way. Without it I could not work genuenly, and for that I am constantly making choices between the project that I should do and bring forward and the ones I should let go.

There are so many things happening that an individual can not affect on. But through my work I can do so, and I can do it with dignity. I hope that in the long run it would be something meaningfull for many others.







UNIVERSUMI
clock - handcrafted copper and silver, clock mechanism, 2025


Metalsmith: Mika Paasonen
Photographer: Chikako Harada






The desire to measure life by speed and productivity is one of society’s most corrosive impulses. Decisions made at machine speed are disconnected from the sustainable whole and produce only an illusory sense of well-being which ultimately exploits the human being. Universumi encourages us to let go of artificial time management, which holds no real meaning in bigger picture. The clock shows you the minutes and let you hear the seconds, yet the truest record of time can be seen in patina that slowly forms the metal parts.









SOLITUDI I, II, III, IV
wearable sculpture series - electroformed copper, silver, 2024

Goldsmith: Mika Paasonen
Photographer: Chikako Harada













Sculpture jewellery asks if art can be functional while it explores scale of changing space, movement and use of material from human perspective.

Wearable art enables interaction but it also affects new senses through touch. Visual shape is suddenly something more. With functional attributes of object person can continue to create valuable content to the art work.









PISARA
silver jewellery collection, 2010

Goldsmith: Sanna Silgren
Photography: Lapponia Jewelry



The idea for the jewelry competition struck me instantly.
Nature is in Lapponia’s brand core
– for me the drops are the nature’s purest form.










JAM 
light - borosilicate glass, cork, led, textile cord, 2011

Photographer: Chikako Harada













OJENTAA
sculptural light series - wood, led lights, electric cord, 2013

Cabinet maker: Jari-Pekka Vilkman
Photographer: Chikako Harada













VIIKARI
sculptural light series - wood, metal, led lights, 2013

Cabinet maker: Jari-Pekka Vilkman
Photographer: Chikako Harada

















BIG SUR
sculpture - acrylic, wire, 2015

Photographer: Chikako Harada













GREENHOUSE
Light: mouth-blown glass, electric cord, bulb, 2008

Glass blower: Jaakko Liikanen















MURU
carpet - wool, felt, 2009

Photographer: Liisa Valonen
















RUGS
hammock - silk screened old rugs, acrylic plate, wood, rope, 2005

Photographer: Chikako Harada

















JOINED
cutleries - hand crafted silver, old cutleries, 2005

Photographer: Chikako Harada












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