Scattered notes on a place
Part of the Latent shelter project
Latent Shelter is an ongoing body of work exploring abandoned fortifications within the Finnish southern defense line as spaces where notions of refuge, vulnerability, and ecological transformation converge. Working across moving image, photography, drawing, and text, the project engages with these structures as environments in transition—eroded by water, overgrown with moss, forming calthemites, and gradually shifting from military infrastructure toward cave-like formations. Situated between past and present, defense and exposure, they raise questions around the conditions of shelter and their resonance within a contemporary geopolitical moment.
The first video iteration of the project, Scattered Notes on a Place, approaches these environments through a fragmentary and associative structure. It gathers impressions of these sites as a series of access points: calthemites and abandoned concrete structures become openings toward both history and present sorrow. Elements such as water, whether encountered as a puddle or reimagined as a vessel-like form, begin to function as thresholds or portals, suggesting the possibility of an underground, parallel, or inverted spatial reality.