Editing Kalervo Palsa (section)

==Life==
Palsa was a native of [[Kittilä]] in [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]]. As a child, he grew up in a dysfunctional household where display of emotion was discouraged.<ref name="yle">{{Cite web |last=Karemo |first=Tuomas |date=2022-06-18 |title= Vasta nyt olen valmis kertomaan totuuden Kalervo Palsasta – kohutun taiteilijan taulut tuholta pelastanut Maj-Lis Pitkänen puhuu nuorena kuolleesta ystävästään  |url=https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10002965 |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=[[YLE]] |lang=fi}}</ref>

Palsa began keeping a journal in which he recorded his thoughts in the early 1960s. His work was first exhibited in [[Rovaniemi]] in 1967, and he became the first member of his family to graduate high school in 1970. He spent time in the 1970s as an art student in [[Helsinki]], but resided permanently at a small studio cabin in Kittilä.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robbins |first=Nina |title=Kalervo PALSA |url=http://www.kiasma.fi/site/pop/pop.php?tid=120&lang=fi&mo= |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824153942/http://www.kiasma.fi/site/pop/pop.php?tid=120&lang=fi&mo= |archive-date=2009-08-24 |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=POP }}</ref> It was connected to electricity by a long extension cable from a nearby house, and Palsa called it his "[[Gethsemane|Getsemane]]" after the biblical site, or sometimes his "castle in the clouds".

Palsa died in 1987, lying in bed at home alone with pneumonia.<ref name="palsamuseo">{{Cite web |title=Artist Kalervo Palsa |url=http://www.palsamuseo.fi/in-english/artist-kalervo-palsa/ |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=PALSA-MUSEO}}</ref>