Narcosis the Cat comic strips #54 (2010) and #86 (2010-17). Inspired by the modern day digital printing errors of various kind, 1980s computer games with their low-resolution pixel style, and classic comic strip rasters.
Here’s my newest song – an electric guitar ballad: “The Lynx at My Home” (2016).
This song is dedicated to my cat and all the cats I have loved in my life.
The track will be in the upcoming album Tree of Love – and Other Ballads from the Darkened Sun. Featuring f.ex. acoustic/electric guitar and piano ballads, celt and medieval inspired songs.
PS. Points and glory to the person who gathers what the beginning and end of the song “means” (the ambient sound waves from 0:00-0:36 and 7:43–8:00)… Hint: listen to the lyrics… You can write a comment on your thoughts. (I’ll reveal my intentions later.)
Answer: The ambient soundscape in the beginning and in the end refers to the 2nd verse about sinking to the bottom of the sea… That’s how I imagine it to sound like. It also represents the inner world of cat – that we can only dream about of ever understanding (no more than ourselves)…
Of course the whole song itself also tells about life, women and broken relationships.
EDIT February 25th, 2017: Song version updated – some tuning issues were fixed.
Here are the lyrics:
Lyriikat suomeksi:
Cougrif (10.7.2010). Ink, 10×15 cm. A mythological feline with wings meets a bird being. From the Apokryfia sketch book #2 Beta.
Narcosis the Cat cardboard cut-out (2010) painted on acrylics.
Narcosis the Cat is the main comic book character in the wacky adventures of Flapsticks. Check out more comic strips at http://
which are currently in Finnish, translations are coming. The blog will also feature English strips every now and then: here are all the strips currently available.
SUOMEKSI: Lue Narkoosi-kissa-sarjakuvast
Flying Exercises | Lentoharjoituksia (2011). Wooden color pencils and ink, 10×15 cm. From the Apokryfia book #10 Kappa the Color.
Pen drawing 21x 29 cm and a computer colorized version. Egypt, the Sphinx and pyramids have always inspired me. Notice the owl on top of the Sphinx and the All-Seeing Eye.
Snow leopard -sketch and a final Black Leopard -etching. The etching was also supposed to be a snow leopard but I forgot it in the acid for too long a period and it became out as a black leopard :).
Etching 16×18 cm. The graphic series has 8 prints and they are differently colored.
Color on paper, 38×46 cm. Inspired by the stone lion statues in the castle of Mustio near Lohja, Finland.
“Narcosis the Cat is 5 billion years old. She is already very old and tired…”
“Yet Narcosis the Cat always reincarnates again!”
A spoof on Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) which is my all-time favorite film in addition to f.ex. Tarkovsky‘s Stalker (1979). I love the scene in 2001 with the light white room and the stargate preceding it. It really feels like entering a whole new another world and universe (more about this topic and flying here).