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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

Ekopiste ecological point

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 

red paint on rocks

action 5.3 HotelliPeikko tie

words on wooden shed-lodging

 

action 5.2 mimic koivu 

cigarette papers on birch

action 5.1 Lucky Day 

chalk on rock

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

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Interactive: you are invited to Kippis (cheers) or Kirota (curse) your ancestors and they can cheers or curse you in return. In a respectful way I ask, what did my ancestors invite me to do? How have they challenged me? What have they asked me to create?

Genetic Material 2012, ancestor spirits, vodka spirits, arduino with LED shield (kippis/Kirota), sauna bucket, ice, shot glasses

Chalk ‘n Talk

Art Installation December 20, 2010 The Loft, Art Annex, Victoria BC.

The ideas for Chalk ‘n Talk are from my knowledge and history of art as an artist and as an art teacher.

The  materials, objects and physical acts of  shredding paper, nailing lath, spray painting ponies and stencilling chalk allowed me to collect and disperse thoughts into new formations of artist/teacher identity. Essential to being an effective teacher is having an active practice – it is through continued development of my work that I am able to offer my students a rich environment to encourage exploration and support them as they build their own creative communities.

materials: chalk, stencils, ink, spray paint, my little ponies, string, tampons, books, wallpaper, dresses, shredded paper (5 years of notes, assignments, memos), new and used lath, nails, skateboard and intercom system.