A personal spiritualization, 2000

What really is at question here? How is it possible that a Finnish artist can begin to employ a duck whose adventures would really only belong in the realm of a certain world-renowned comic book series?
  "I have structured a character who stands with one foot firmly planted on very carefully guarded territory but who is, however, also a part of my very own reality," explains Kaj Stenvall. He goes on to explain that this character has been developed by himself, even though the similarity to the most famous duck in the world cannot be denied.
  The scenes depicted in his pictures are from the world at large and his duck often appears in absurd and universal settings. There really is nothing in his paintings that you could put your finger on to connect them to any particular corner of the world, especially not to Finland.
  "I do not want to limit myself by riding on the exotic aspects of Finland. If I linked some sense of Finnishness in these works it wouldnīt really add anything essential but would only serve to restrict and limit the degree of expression. The element of something Finnish is, at most, a sense of the melancholic," Kaj Stenvall comments. He tells that he is just starting work on painting with a snowy landscape background, which is probably his first concession to his own Finnishness.