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July 2010Here’s an oddity I haven’t shared with the world yet (until now). Whenever there’s a celebrating occasion: birthdays, graduation, Christmas, whatever..., you need a card of some sort, right? But why buy a card when you can make one yourself?
This is one of my collage-cards, made up by a lot of individual pictures that are all drawn, painted, cut out, carefully arranged and finally glued to a cardboard background. Cards like this are meant to be very personal, each little image having some sort of connection to the recipient’s life, and usually more fun to receive than regular cards bought in a store.
Made for my dad’s 50th birthday in July. The letters spell: “Congratulations Reino 50”
Watercolour, coloured pencils, gel pen, scissors and glue. About 30x30 cm / 12,5x12,5 inch in total – here: the card on top of a white background.
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Thank you. Glad you liked it.
(And thanks for the 
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Thank you. I will probably upload more in the future whenever they come along.
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I think this might be my favoritist thing you've done. I hope your dad liked it as much as i do.
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He liked it very much, and spent quite some time pondering over the robot models (I don't know squat about robots - I just picked references that looked good and would fit 
Funny how people select their favourites. Sometimes you somehow suspect in advance which pieces will get a lot of attention and 'please' the audience. And sometimes the things you don't expect much attention on is what catches the audience's eye(s). Not questioning your favouritism of course - just a small pondering. 
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That is good to hear your dad liked it so much (though I can't see why he wouldn't). Personally I can't say why I like this piece so much, maybe it is the bright colors, or how you stitched it together, or just that you too make your own birthday cards (for the important people in your life) like I do... or maybe it is just how great it looks. I had second thoughts about labeling this one my favorists of your work, because your pencil drawings like "Waiting for Change" and "City Lost" are so good and tight, but there is just something about this one I really dig!
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And you keep on digging it 
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Even if it is "an oddity", we sure recognize your talent with details.
I can't help but wonder do your dad (and you) have some connections to Finland as your dad's name is very "Finnish one"?
And I also wonder what those rhinoceroes represent in this one.
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The detail freak will always be present, no matter what
Dad has a Finnish name, yes. His dad came from Finland, as did my grandmother on my mother's side while grandfather on mother's side came from Estonia. So there are quite a lot of old Finnish/Baltic connections. However I'm not Finnish at all - I can count to seven, say "Merry Christmas", "thank you" and "mother" but it stops there.
Hehe.... I wondered when I was going to get the rhinoceroes-question. It's a simple and rather silly old joke we have. The sound of "rhino" reminds of the sound of "reino". I suppose real Finnish people pronounce it differently but that's what it sounds like here. So... rhinos are therefore Reinos. Or was it the other way around?
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I thought so. Reino is so "Finnish" name. So you DO have connections (and quite much) to Finland. Wonder that this has not come up earlier. And if you know as much as those words in Finnish you would do fine here. 
Reino...rhino... I see the point. We do pronounce it a little bit differently back here but even then it is a close match. Case solved.
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Well... my heritage is not important, only art is important
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