Charlotte is a character who represents all the seemingly meaningless, yet somehow deeply meaningful routines, memories and moments.

Sports:

When Charlotte was younger, she used to ride horses. At the age of 11, she started to worry about her height growth. In a couple of years, she would be too tall to ride the smaller ponies. She googled how to stop a child’s height growth. The answer she found was to exercise with heavy weights. She started doing jumping jacks while holding a chair as a weight. She tried it for a while. She doesn’t ride anymore. Later, during her teenage years, Charlotte wanted to become a model.

Change:

During the ages of sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen, she changed her hair a lot. She could divide her life into chapters according to what kind of hair she had: black, brown, blond, short, long. Now she has had the same kind of hair (black, growing) for one and a half years, and she feels like the rhythm of life has changed. The years have melted together.

Money:

There is a hole in Charlotte’s stocking. Intact tights mean a good financial situation for her. She buys several for a rainy day when she can afford it. This picture is taken during summer 2024, when she was mostly unemployed.

Introvert:

She started high school in a school where many people from her old school went. For example, her next-door neighbor was in the same class as her. She had to take two vehicles (train + bus, bus + bus, bus + tram) to get to school. She figured out which transportation routes the people from her old school, who lived in the same neighborhood, used and picked the one they didn’t use—the longest path. When they started to use her route, she began going to school way too early just to avoid seeing people before school.

Competition:

Charlotte and her childhood best friend used to have a lot of sleepovers as children. They always created a theme for the sleepover. One of their "sleepover activities" was different competitions. They competed against each other in dancing, staring, painting, cooking, singing, and so on.

Control:

When in bars, she looks at herself in the mirror in the toilet and makes different kinds of faces. Grimaces, smiles, observes, and doubts. She has to know if she is still there

Armi Utriainen

A photographer, conseptual artist, video artist, writer, pocket collector, investigator and student