Senses Lyyti, a collaboration with Jari Karppinen

Laila Kekkonen was a framer who every day used her milk stool to milk the farm’s cows in the morning. For this she used a simple stool that was made by her husband. She used that stool every day.

Around 2010 Jari, her grandson, found her almost 100 year old stool in the barn attic, long after the farm stopped being active and the cows had long gone. He thought it would be a novel idea to recreate this old stool in a slightly newer version.

When I learned about the story behind the Lyyti I wanted to add to this story and lift it further by making art with it. More than just taking the stool and painting it I wanted this to be a collaboration between Jari’s fine carpentry and my art project “Senses”. We built six Lyyti together and Jari initiated the creation of one bigger version to be painted in a local theme. This coincided with my Location-based painting series. 

The result are six stools in the primary and secondary colours painted in a graffiti style that I use in my paintings and one bright blue & white Vellamo theme based bigger Lyyti.

Artwork specifications

• Created in Finland July 2026
• Certificate of Authenticity included
• Signed by Jari & Steit
• Finnish pine
• MTN & Molotow Spray-paint
• Size normal Lyyti: 30 x 41 x 23 cm
• Size Vellamo Lyyti: 37 x 60 x 30 cm
• Unique artworks.