Née en Finlande en 1978 Kaisa Leka réside à Porvoo une petite ville sur la côte où elle étudie les arts, le design et la bande dessinée. Kaisa Leka, convertie à la philosophie d’Hare Krishna en 1998, crée une série d’albums qui varient par leurs formes, leurs noms et leurs approches mais ont une chose en commun : le thème de la recherche spirituelle. Kaisa Leka dessine beaucoup pour des magazines finlandais et publie également plusieurs bandes dessinées autobiographiques aux éditions Absolute Truth Press, notamment I’m not these feet (2003), un journal sur la rééducation à la marche suite à une double amputation des jambes, Your name is Krishangi en 2004, qui relate sa lune de miel en Californie, puis Two stories un album en deux parties, qui décrit, du point de vu de l’auteure puis de son mari, une semaine que l’un a passé en Finlande et l’autre en Ukraine. En septembre 2006, elle publie un album sur le thème de l’exclusion, perçue de manière positive ou négative. Par des dessins simples soulignés par de forts traits noirs, Kaisa Leka souhaite avant tout dénoncer la superficialité des valeurs de la société occidentale moderne.

I was born in 1978 in Lahti, Southern Finland. I lived there until the age of 18, when I moved to Porvoo, a small town on the coast. I've stayed in Porvoo since, and enjoyed walks in the scenic 16th century old town and quiet evenings at home, cooking vegetarian food with my husband and friends. You can find me sittting in the park and eating ice cream whenever it's warm enough, and recognize me by my prosthetic feet, as I'm a double below knee amputee.
I've studied arts, graphic design and comics in the Arts and Crafts college of Porvoo and Lahti Polytechninc. For the last five years I've combined working and studying, getting new sources of inspiration at school and practical skills at work.
I work with graphic design as well as comics, mostly layout. Lately I've done the layout for a vegetarian cookbook put together by the Green party's presidential candidate for the 2006 election, and for a small book about India published by the Helsinki City Art Museum. I've also worked for several magazines and done different smaller projects for a variety of clients. I regularly also teach comics courses and workshops in many different schools.
I've published several autobiographical comic books, the largest being the 60-page "I am not these feet" from 2003, a diary about learning to walk again. In 2004 I published "Your name is Krishangi", a travel diary from our honeymoon that took an unexpected turn when we went to visit a Hindu monastic in the California redwoods. A small comic in two parts named "Two stories" was published in 2005, and describes a week I spent home alone while my husband was in Ukraine - from both his point of view and mine.
My comics have also been published in several Finnish magazines, daily newspapers as well as weekly and monthly magazines. The themes are the same even though the format varies: spirituality, disability and politics. My comics have been included in several group exhibitions in Finland, and also at the book fair in Moscow, Russia.
I'm currently working on a new comic book which will be published in October 2006. Its main theme will be being on the outside, in a negative as well as positive sense. It will describe the feeling of being left outside as a child, teased at school for being different, and making the choice of stepping outside this society's superficial values as an adult.

objets d'artistes / artists works
- I’m not these feet

- Your name is Krishangi (2004)
- Two stories

- http://www.absolutetruthpress.com/kaisa/