Noitalapsi

"...and then, my inspiration wakes up and i don't know if i should be glad of this shot of clear stars in my veins or afraid as i know my mind can do anything now."

Noitalapsi, is Finnish and it means the Witch child.

I live in Finland, in a city called Jyväskylä -

it's not that big of a city really and we've got forest and lakes here to enjoy.

We get snow in winter and sun in summer, though it rains a lot through spring to fall, even in summer it can be more rainy than sunny. I don't mind really, even though I'd prefer the sunshine over the rain.

There's also a place further up north that I call home,

the city of Rovaniemi,

a place where there is a lot of snow in the winter and where you might get snowfall even in summer. Place where in summer the sun doesn't set and in winter doesn't rise.

It's a beautiful and kind of magical place in my opinion with wild natural beauty.

If you're lucky in winter you might even see the northern-lights - unfortunately my camera isn't nearly good enough to photograph them.

My hair color is naturally obnoxious copper-red that turns a bit yellowish in summer. My eyes are weird grayish-blue, I'm tall but I seem to fall behind my little bothers now as they've become taller than me - they're like trees I swear.

I think that I'm healthy though I should weight more than I do and I have a weird case of insomnia and case of nerves and anxiety.

There's also dyslexia but that's really not a big deal.

I like writing, be it poems or stories. I like that I have the ability to create a world with my words only and shape it as I see fit. The way I can pass on emotions and feelings with words or leave the story for reader to solve is something I truly like.

When I was a child I was often told that I have an active imagination and now I'm glad to put that imagination to use.

I like small things, those little details and fragile things. Because I think that the smallest matters the most.

I'd like to think that I pay attention to the detail, especially when it comes to photography - but sometimes the bigger picture can be so much more breathtaking and I can't help myself.

It's not like it matters though, I'm allowed to do the things the way that I want and flit around changing my interest with the current mood I'm facing.

Perhaps it would be sufficient to say that many things considering my art regardless of the form represents the feelings and mindset that I've had at the moment of creation, that or I've borrowed the feelings of someone else to create. Talking with people can be very inspirational in that way.

My interests in photography vary from side to side, but I might like photographing the nature and city around me the most. I can go from one thing to an other and then back again and take momentary interest in something specif to photograph.

I like trying different things and I guess I'm still trying to find my own way (in more than one sense), and I usually have more than just one project at the go that I'm working with not-so-regularly, be it a written thing or something to do with photographing.

I don't know what I'll become yet,

there are things that I'd like to become but that doesn't meant that I will,

nor that if I did I'd like it in the end.

And I think that that's okay.

I think it's okay that I don't know what I'll become yet,

that I don't really know what I want to do with this life of mine.

And I think that finding momentary joy and enjoyment from many small and different things is better than being stuck on something for eternity, but maybe that's just me, maybe it's the freedom carved into my veins that's saying that...

but I think I can live pretty good and happily like this.

I think, if I can do the things that I enjoy I can be alright.