My first work
(“Welcome and good luck”) was a reaction to the place and the
situation:
It was still very cold, the lakes frozen, the grass still pressed to the
ground by the weight of winter which just seemed to have ended.
But if you looked attentively, new things already started to grow.
Saksala itself was still pretty new and I myself was a “new thing” in
Saksala.
The little pieces of shaped and colored wood which I installed
into the cracks of the dominant rock next to the building are also new
things, peeping out, trying their best and being curious about whatever
will happen to them.
Time going by, some will eventually fall off,
others will last long, some even longer, no thing on earth lasts for
ever.
This work was my first approach to Saksala, my attempt to get
familiar with the place , and a reference to the Saksala project.
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With my second work
(“Far out”)
I realized (in modification) my original project of a very lean, very stretched-out kind of figure / sculpture, which I had in mind and had also brought with me in form of sketches and models.
It turned out that I realized TWO of them. The material I used are cut-away from the same tree.
On one side (painted “innocent” white) there is the original curve of the tree.
One the other side there are traces of chainsaw, of violation and “blood”.
The common flesh in between them has been cut out and transformed into other beautiful sculptures by other artists.
My sculptures refer to their common stem but are happy in reaching out for the universe separately.
I put them on foot-stools to mock a little bit about their (and my) ambitions
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ALLAPRIMA MUSEUM
