Personally I want my work to amplify the persona and disposition of these materials. I鈥檓 trying to achieve and aesthetic that is forceful and brutal yet delicate at the same time. I hope that my work is associated in the domains of utility and sculpture.
My piece honors the natural form of the rock as a source rising above the ground level as a foundation and the aluminium as the more refined, luminous emergent child.
Thinking beyond illustrating the relations of these materials and their origins I wanted to study the consumptive nature of this piece. Both parts of the piece required rather large quantities of energy and force to form. I feel ashamed and sense a lingering quilt from the fact that I have failed to reshape my practice for more considerate. Having said that I hope my work has some ability to evoke thoughts on earthbound materials and their rather wearing part in the bigger picture of material flows.
Materials: Natural stone and cast aluminium
Through an exercise of filtering and curating, Terra Cognita is a landscape composed of multiple fragments encountered while walking around different locations in Finland. The objects reflect on the mistaken idea of the intact landscape and the far from natural scenery that surrounds us.
Terra Incognita: (unknown land) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been documented.
The work is a series of sculptures, that give a physical form to a variety of pessimistic inner voices stemming from deep within the subconscious. The beings feed on the feelings of fear, insecurity, frustration, self-doubt and uncertainty. They speak through their synthesized voices, craving for attention and validation, constantly reminding of their existence.
This work was a means to make sense of my own lived experience with a dissociative disorder. Along the way I found out that wholes are not necessarily ones, and that more important than unified fronts are the dialogues in-betweens. Sense of connection creates a sense of common ground, a safe space for change and growth.
The end result is 鈥渙ne鈥 sculpture made of numerous separate parts, coming together to form a whole, held together by their connect.
