N°012 · PROCESS · 3 MIN

Sketching in a sauna (it works)

An open sketchbook on a sauna bench beside a lake-facing window.

The best sketches I made this year were drawn in a damp notebook on the top bench of a lake sauna. The heat makes you slow, and slow is where the shapes come from.

Pencil only. Ink runs. Ten minutes in, five minutes out on the jetty, then back to the page.

Sketches, a notebook, and paper samples on a wooden desk by a harbor window.

Back at the desk most of them are useless. Two of them became the Löyly tokens.

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NEW PROJECTS FROM MARCH 2027

Sami Aho

INSTAGRAM ARE.NA LINKEDIN

HELSINKI 60.17° N

© 2026

NEW PROJECTS FROM MARCH 2027

Sami Aho

INSTAGRAM ARE.NA LINKEDIN

HELSINKI 60.17° N

© 2026

Sami

Sami

Sami

Sami

HELSINKI 60.17° N

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