My installation M the Machine for Olin Hall Gallery consists of 700 cardboard boxes and three programmed movies. The boxes are cut according to ten different models: each surface has one to ten square holes which provide partial views of other interior spaces as the viewer moves within the work. The computer movies, which are called "Sixties", "Seventies" and "Eighties", are made of pictures from my parents' or friends' private photo albums during those decades. I programmed random algorithms to vary the movements and sequences of the images within the movies. The stylistic differences of these loops reflects the stages of my personal history: "Eighties" is black and white and fast (as youth sometimes is). "Sixties" is calm, pastel-colored and has several random endings and beginnings, like little baby's thoughts and perceptions. "Seventies" is steadier in its structure, like a school day, or like boys' games with rules and hierarchy. The images show central Finland during the 1960's and '70's; then Helsinki during the 1980's. However, I do not consider these to be autobiographical: they are atmospheric instead of narrative. The person in the pictures could be anyone of about the same age and with similar type of social-geographic background. The work is a model or a simulation of the workings of memory: how the past is changing all the time and can be only seen through the filter of the present. The installation is reconstructive and deconstructive at the same time. Combining and composing with diverse materials and concepts is typical of my work. I make hybrids because that, from my point of view, is realism.