we start off with an artist who uses darkness as his canvas and lighting as his brush who tommo from finland and turns to fear with his creations which are actually photographs with longer exposures and a moving source of light such as a flashlight any background is fair game for tom oh from snow covered forest to abandoned houses when we visited him in his studio in helsinki. when hano who plays with light the results are magically glowing flowers of the night blinking lamps turn into radiant creatures from another world. who calls this art light paintings they are photos taken with a long exposure. he learned the technique about ten years ago from a friend. and that was literally like a magical moment. like maybe a week or two after that i just decided i'd have to you know tried by myself i just bought my first the s.l.r. camera and then just start making you know my own experiments so i can almost every night. i'm like of weeks passed on maybe months passed on i i was like really hooked on that. every like painting begins with a sketch on paper. what one likes to design best are o