Perunateatteri 2026

Modern poetry often leans toward seriousness as a coping mechanism for an increasingly unpredictable world. While I fully respect that approach, I find myself drawn to Dadaism’s original impulse: when reality itself fractures into absurdity, art can respond with nonsense, play, and radical lightness.

Perunateatteri (Potato Theater) explores the possibility of finding sense within senselessness. Carved directly into real potatoes, the poem treats "peruna" not just as a noun, but as verb and adjective—a linguistic experiment in Finnish, a language I am still learning. The piece functions as therapeutic absurdity: instead of mirroring despair, it celebrates the joyful chaos of meaning-making.