- Oh, now you can see maybe better the things are like... No, you can't see.

That work on this one has reflective yarns.

One once we tested with a friend of mine who is expert on LED lights, we made the kind of mask and I made them kind of situations which you can then see when you have it and look there.

(gentle upbeat music) My name is Outi Martikainen and I'm working and living in Helsinki.

Last nine years I have been working in digital Jacquard weaving in my studio.

This Jacquard, it's from 1700 already, but it's like pre-data, so it used to be holes in the cardboard and then it came to bitmap like mine.

But these are, each of them is one pixel in my picture.

So I have, here, I have 220 pixels, and altogether 880, so then I get this possibility to make pictures.

(gentle music) And I designed this ropes myself, how they are braided.

So I love synthetic materials.

I'm ashamed, but actually this is, it has a kind of shine like silk, but it's 1/10 of the price.

I can't use silk, but I can tell the person who makes the ropes which colors I want to have in there.

It can have 40 different monofilament yarns to braid it together, and then I get these colors.

I use lot of landscapes also because there's many things you can illustrate or feel, and they are like windows to eternity.

(gentle music continues) Very seldom I take my like big camera, but I took it and I was wondering that the card is full and I was like who has been using this?

And then I found out that this, it was full of images which my daughter and her friend have been taking of themselves posing.

They were like 13 years old and I find it very interesting 'cause they were already like 17, 18 when I found it, that card.

And I see from them this unsure and unsecure thing and then and am I this and am I that, and still they make like this normal pose that people are like, what?

Like trying, but I feel that they are trying there like how far they can go, and nice that they could do that.

(quiet music continues) This age, you know, under this five, six years, it's quite critical to us, and I would like with the picture to show that this person, maybe she was like five years in this picture, that she knows everything.

She understands everything that we have to appreciate her individuality, and from her eyes, I was thinking that this tells a lot, that they look through you.

We should not think about that children are just like children, that they are like a group of something, that they all are individuals and they all should be taken as seriously.

I like dancing, so I like also moving around when I'm working, and this I have found really like I like it.

(cheery music playing in background) It's so funny 'cause it's so silent now because this has a lot of sound also, there's a (Outi imitating machine humming).

And then it has pressed air, like... (Outi imitating air compressor crashing) ♪ As you may learn ♪ ♪ There's a war ♪ against all going on ♪ ♪ And I wanna make ♪ everything right ♪ ♪ I wanna make ♪ everything right ♪ - Of course, this is a family learn also from my grandmother and she was self-taught seamstress, so I had that kind of material on hands when I was a child, so I think that's why this feels so familiar.

♪ Dark but I don't care ♪ ♪ That's when we ♪ have each other ♪ ♪ 'Cause in the air ♪ don't make me scared ♪ ♪ I'm moving sound forever ♪ (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) - [Narrator] "Postcards" is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota.

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