Hanna Vahvaselkä is a sculptor, living and working in Mikkeli, eastern Finland. At present she is also a doctoral candidate at Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts, Helsinki. Her material is wood, with which she has worked since 1999. In her work, wood is the material and the creator of visual appearance, and part of the conceptual content
for example, as intergenerational meanings or questions arising from the forest ecology. Constantly working with materials in material processes the will of wood, the language of wood, the speech of wood and the memory of wood are at the centre of her works.
