⤳ Strong wind events foster leaning trees
⤳ HYPOGEA: Beneath the light of days, different rhythms flow
⤳ HYPOGEA: Beneath the light of days, different rhythms flow
Scattered notes on a place
Ongoing research and artistic project, initiated while discovering an artillery bunker in the forest around Skatanniemi, Helsinki, which was built for defense purposes during the First World War, was never used, and today is resting there. Water permeates the concrete and, with time, beautiful calthemites (the kind of stalactites that grow from concrete) are growing.
The project in its current form is being developed across a short film, a photographic series, but also text, drawing, and other mediums. The work is mainly centered around the the concept of safety, around the entity of the bunker, of the cave, and of the burrow; safety as defense, when safe becomes sheltered, defense as action and as reaction. And, also, in the concept of access points: calthemites and abandoned concrete structures form access points towards both history and present sorrow. A puddle, either a real one or a vessel-like sculpture within the Cave, might act as an access point, or even portal, for an underground, probably different, perhaps opposite reality.
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Currently in research & development
Scattered notes
2023A text, a score.
Double-sided inkjet print on Keaykolour Particles paper, "snow" and “moonlight”, 148x420 cm
You might add an organic texture
2023
Photographic print mounted on dibond, 64x48 cm