Being creative has always been something I find my way to without even trying. Some time ago I discovered a summary from my kindergarten that said: “Caroliina should most definitely continue pursuing art.” Funny enough, since I was never good at sports, my mother put me into swimming in hopes I would improve. Ironically, here I am — doing art, and still not being good at sports.

But all jokes aside, my love for textile art is more recent. In 2020 I started at Pallas University of Applied Sciences, studying textile. The idea was originally to focus on fashion, but halfway through my studies I discovered tapestry and gradually shifted toward weaving. What drew me in was the slow unfolding of an image — the way it builds fragment by fragment, thread by thread, accumulating into something precise yet unpredictable. Although I am impatient by nature, weaving gives me a different kind of focus: grounding, yet experimental. Creating art helps me understand the world better, and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.