We see them enjoying the oddness of each other's ways of seeing the world, confronting artistic and practical problems together, quarrelling and making up, and above all feeding into each other's creative work. We see their life in a series of short glimpses, on their island, in Helsinki and on various journeys. There has to be an attic corridor with many closed doors between their two studios. Jonna and Mari are two women of a certain age - one a visual artist and film-maker, the other a writer and illustrator - who live and work together, but not too close together. Since we wouldn't have got this rather lovely little book without that set of circumstances, I'm not too disappointed, though. Show More of her parents' summer-house, and she lived there only seasonally, and mostly together with her life-partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä.
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