Around three months ago Helsinki City Art Museum ordered a work from me for the Kamppi metro station with very short notice. I was given about a month and a half to make two 10m long public works, but it was such an exciting spot that I agreed to do it, even though it’d require long hours and bad sleep.

I visited the site with the museum people and started painting the work in my studio. Three weeks before the work was supposed to be unveiled I got a call from the museum that the project is off. They said, very amusingly, that they need more visitors to the museum and therefore they want to use the space for marketing – glue some exhibition posters on the wall. I thought that either they are not very smart at marketing or they are very clever  and not telling me the real reason for canceling the project. Do they think my work is crap, or too provocative?

Anyway, I think it’s just bad manners to call something off with such short notice with such a lame excuse. They did pay all the expenses but I was still so pissed off that I made some calls and found another, even better public place to show the work. So, next week the works will appear in one of the busiest spots in the center of Helsinki. Guess where!