🇫🇮 "Taidetta luodaan vapaudessa. Vapaus on itse otettava. Kukaan, kukaan ei tule sinulle tarjoamaan vapauttaa." 🇬🇧 "Art is made in freedom. You yourself have to take hold of this freedom. Nobody, nobody is going to come to offer you freedom." Writes Ritva Hellsten on page 181 of her wonderful 2020 novel "Raija", about her sister, Finnish writer Raija Siekkinen, sadly no longer with us, whose brilliant stories have been very close to my heart ever since I first chanced upon them.