Vaeltavat puut ja tuttavallisen kokoinen vuori 2015
In the Sring 2015 I had an exhibition in gallery Rajatila in Tampere. The works were had their origins in a residency period I spent in Iceland in 2013. In the light upstairs of the gallery there were four works: in the windows moths made of paper, a pencil drawing hanging from the ceiling, an installation where moss was growing from on top of a desk and a piece of concrete floor. The cellar of the gallery is dark, without windows. I installed there two works showing the residency building by night.
Kuinka vuori laskostuu & Sketches
The `Work about how a mountain is foulding´ is a crayon drawing on a hardened canvas. In Iceland the twiggs dye according the season and the mountain ground mountainous ground lookes like foulded table cloth. On the wall I showed drawings connected to the same idea.
Photos Peter Rosvik
Yöperhoset
The moths cut from colored japanese paper. The fans made them appear to flutter in the wind.
Photos Peter Rosvik
Sammalpöytä
I constructed a desk, and on the desk I made a composition of old objects: a torch, paper punch, an atlas. To the dictionary I added a photo I had taken in Iceland, and moss is growing out from the book to the floor. I got the piece of forest floor sponsored by Piiraisen Viherpalvelu. The work continues the theme of the spreading vegetation.
Photos Seppo Heikkinen
Lattia
Looking intensively the floor of the bathroom in the residency building I started to see different figures. I wanted to move similar shapes on a collection of dyed concrete slabs.
Autonvalotyö
The two works in the dark basement are showing the residency building at night. After the dawn, the images of the surrounding lanscape are reflected on the windows of the house and the lights of the cars passing by are moving on the walls of the living room. The other art work represents the windows of the building as fourteen small drawings and for the other work I made a fake wall and behind the wall, lights of a car are passing by.
The work is called `How the cars are passing by´. A small robot car with lights on is moving behind a fake wall. The lights of the car are sieved through the silhouettes of trees and they make moving shadows on the walls of the room. The robot car moves now and then also to the other direction, and one can see its read rear lights.
Residenssityö
I represented the residency building in the art work with its fourteen windows. The windows are small boxes, wich have two drawings inside. The other drawing is showing the outside world reflected on the window and the other the interior seen through the window in the dark. The direction of the light is controlled by timed lamps. The lamps show either the drawing of the interior or the drawing of the reflections. The house has its own life and the windows are like eyes looking the surrounding world.