Janne Harju

I won an honorable mention in Mikkeli Illustration Triennale (in finnish: Mikkelin kuvitustriennale) this year. Before this time triennale has been a competition for already published illustrations. Now they gave a poem, Konerakkaus (=Machine Love) to illustrate and had a theme, combination of word and picture.

I decided to do something different from what i have done before and created a fake page of an old library book with poem printed and hand written comments of different readers. Readers (woman who’s husbend has left her, boring engineer and a school boy who had to read poem for school assignment) have commented the poem from their own experiences of life.