Tiny art
on a big journey.
Original artworks, sent into the unknown. You never know where they'll end up — or if they'll ever arrive.
somewhere out there…
Original artworks, sent into the unknown. You never know where they'll end up — or if they'll ever arrive.
How it works
Each Traveller is an original hand-painted artwork, made once and never again.
It's posted to someone, somewhere in the world — a surprise they never ordered.
It travels. We don't know where it is, or what happens next.
If the recipient checks in, we learn where it landed — and it's theirs to keep.
Where they are
Little Travellers are sent to people who never ordered them and never saw them coming.
Leave your address and you may one day open an envelope you never expected.
Who sends these
My name is Jessi. I paint in a small room in Hämeenlinna, Finland — ink and watercolour, almost always at the size of a postcard.
Little Travellers started from a simple discomfort: a painting that stays in a drawer isn't finished. So I choose an address somewhere in the world — a person, a café, a bookshop, a hostel — and I post the original there. Not a print. The only one there is.
Then I let go of it. I don't know whether it arrives, and I never will unless someone tells me. That uncertainty is the uncomfortable part, and it is also the whole point: once a painting is in the post, it stops being mine.
If it reached you, it's yours to keep. If you'd like to tell me where it landed, its page will say so for good. If you'd rather not, the painting is still yours — the story just stays untold.
— Jessi
The paintings themselves live at @artbyjessi_.