I paint images from my everyday views, from places so familiar that I don´t see them any more. Familiarity wipes out the distance between myself and the view, I become a part of the view or the view becomes a part of me, a space where my thoughts and feelings can move freely and be what they are. I paint my experience of this space widening in me.

from Inkeri Makkonen´s text: Helinä Siikala