{"id":1906,"date":"2015-11-30T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T07:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.sofiagroup.fi\/fw2\/?page_id=1906"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:31:45","slug":"meista","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/meista\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nature has been important to me since my childhood; I grew up surrounded by flowers and trees in my parent\u2019s market garden. \u00a0I was already moving around the greenhouse by the age of one, and I saw how my parents treated the flowers.\u00a0\u00a0In autumn, I collected fallen leaves, and dried them between the pages of books; I still have some stored in a box.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My art has a close relation to nature; I have always loved natural colours. \u00a0As a child, I collected flowers in bundles, and at school my classmates copied my beautiful drawings to decorate the classroom windows. I have studied colours theoretically, and I have specially concentrated on the white pigment. I am a pioneer in producing micro-cellulose products.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I noticed the malleability of clay already as a child. I played with clay and made all sorts of things with it. Clay was found in the ground. I noticed the feel of clay with microcellulose and developed a new material, Sisusavi\u00ae. It can be handled like clay, but it doesn’t dirty clothes.<\/p>\n

\"vanhat_kirjat\"My first books, which were foreign flower catalogs in which my father glued pictures, were worn from much handling.\u00a0 In my first school class (at age 7 in Finland), I presented adult-level poems with advice from my mother.\u00a0I borrowed books from the library, and read them in the attic in peace. \u00a0In my matriculation examination test, I wrote an essay on the topic “Man is Wolf to Man.\u201d \u00a0Later, I studied fiction writing in the University of Helsinki and the Orivesi Writing School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature has been important to me since my childhood; I grew up surrounded by flowers and trees in my parent\u2019s market garden. \u00a0I was already moving around the greenhouse by the age of one, and I saw how my parents treated the flowers.\u00a0\u00a0In autumn, I collected fallen leaves, and dried them between the pages of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101015,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"us","enabled_languages":["fi","us"],"languages":{"fi":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"us":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenbutton.fi\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}