Comfort Mask: protection, privacy, safety, avoidance, silence, politeness, silence, warmth, comfort
Sakura (cherry) Blossom, Blossom Mask (Tokyo), Comfort Mask Performance (Victoria BC), Comfort Mask Mokuhanga Print and Comfort Mask (Fujikawaguchiko), 2014 Japan/Canada
Goshu-zarei (deep bow), Sumi Rock, Sumi Rice, Cultivating a Zen Garden and Slipper Taboo, 2014, Fujikawaguchiko, Japan
Rock displaced, noise and items inserted, Rock replaced, 08.26.12
Seidas are holy places related to Sámi culture, the rocks are the home of gods, spirits and trolls. Sámi religion is based on an animistic ideology, in which everything – inanimate nature, natural phenomena, animals and plants – has a spirit. Most seida rocks are noticeable landmarks and clearly stand out in their environment.
Immigrant rock
rock, rope, 1hr walk from Nelimarkka museo/residence to the swimming docks 25.08.12 Open Actions performance collective [photos by K. Popiel]
August 15, bike together around Alajärvi Lake, Finland (start and end at Nellimarkka Museo)
void/mitätön installations/actions in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
action 5.10 The Failure of Language, reading but not seeing, seeing but not reading
words/anagrams, marker, paper
Et okei anagram of ekopiste meaning you’re okay or perhaps it means hits home
Esite kop anagram of ekopiste meaning knock out or meaning cheeks not
Peto eiks anagram of ekopiste meaning so, am beast or meaning predatory strike
action 5.9 Comb Clay layers, capacity and nutrients; land and body sustainability
clay, water, chocolate clay
action 5.8 Finillusia – land of illusion, wandering, wondering
forest, lichen crown, tattoo, shadow staalo
action 5.7 The Past is a Pond – I float up from it like a bubble
puluu tulevaisuuteen Back to the Future, ancestors, photocopies, pond water/lampi vesi
action 5.6 Otherwise what was in question was not going astray in the great forest but falling into a weird condition where everything was otherwise
Akseli Gallen-Kallela Lemminkäisen äiti in forest farm
void/mitätön installations/actions in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
Nelimarkka Residence, Finland
void/mitätön installations/actions in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
action 5.5 “Turn me over if you find me face down in a ditch one day.”
reenactment of quote from Aki Kaurismäki’s Man without a Past 2002 (Mies vailla menneisyyttä); (collaborator K. Popiel)
action 5.4 providing throwing rocks heittää kiviä
action 5.3 Hotelli, Peikko tie
action 5.2 mimic koivu
cigarette papers on birch
void/mitätön installations in void spaces; based on observations of local behaviours (with respect, I’m spying on people, taking notes/photos and making installations based on what i see)
Nelimarkka Residence, Finland
brenda petays projects 