I've been enamoured with dressing up ever since I can remember... and accessories are the spice of dress up.

Playing with scales is fun; herein you'll find miniatures as well as marionettes and dolls, too. Everything that isn't in 1:1 scale.

Putting on a mask is becoming someone, something else. Creating masks is creating that someone, that something, and so very rewarding each and every time.

Playing with interior elements is like dressing up; lamps and curtains and pillows and the rest the accessories of rooms.

And all the rest, too little to merit a subdivision of their own, too big to ignore.

Curiosity is the mother of all inventions, that cannot be denied. Or the fact that in my endless desire to learn, I've always sought new ways of doing, new things to do.

But do what?
Well, a lot, really. Over the course of thirty years, I've managed to dabble in multiple handcrafts, gotten to know some delights via computers, others through more traditional media. Spending time with my three children, all of them different ages, has opened doors to new views, taught me to see the wonder in the world.

I've found myself gravitating towards seas, their myriad fauna and vast possibilities, krakens and dragons, miniatures and giants...all the wonders of legends and fairytales. On the other hand, there are also the million eyes in a peacock's tail, the flames of the Phoenix and the butterfly-soul; the symbology and symbolism that humanity has cooked up, languages like any other.

The desire to learn has also led me to love languages, for to more fully explore and enjoy the wealth of human knowledge, one cannot rely on just one tongue. Thus, being born to speak Finnish, my adventures have taken me through English, Italian, German and Swedish, and at the moment I find myself at the gates of Polish and Braille. Excellent in English, my knack for understanding written words has served me well, enabling me to correctly, albeit roughly, translate texts in even unfamiliar languages, like Spanish.

But it's not just information this fondness for languages has granted me. Stepping outside my mother tongue, I've delighted in reading books in their original languages, discovering nuances and puns that cannot survive in translation.

Jelena Rosenberg-Vahtera, 26.02.1982->
Uniluodonkatu 13
28880 Pori
044-3668652
jelena.rosenberg@vahtera.org

Education:
Satakunta Educational Federation of Municipalities, prop maker, 2010-2012
Länsi-Pori art-heavy upper secondary school 1998 - 2001
-diploma of arts 2001
-school's website available apparently only in Finnish

Resume:
Porin teatteri 2012
Porin Ylioppilasteatteri, TABU (as set helper) 2011
Porin teatteri, The Producers (as set helper) 2011
Vihreä Teatteri, Seven dog brothers (as prop maker) 2011
TaitoTalli 2008
International Meeting Point Satakunta Multicultural Association 2002

Other:
Satakunta Multicultural Association wall painting 2002
Karhuhalli wall painting 1998

Language:
Excellent English; Italian, Polish, German, Swedish mediocre (written everything better than spoken)

Hobbies:
languages, writing, recycling, interior decoration, miniatures, knitting, crocheting, Tunisian crocheting, beading, jewellery, reuse, trashion

Computer skills:
10+ years of experience with Macintosh as well as PCs
Adobe PhotoShop
Adobe Illustrator
html/CSS

Media:
Satakunnan Kansa's mitten challenge 2010 (in Finnish)
Karhuhalli painting

Jelena Rosenberg-Vahtera
Uniluodonkatu 13
28880 Pori, Finland
044-3668652
jelena.rosenberg@vahtera.org