To me community is our human re-enactment of the forest. Together we intertwine and grow, creating our own micro-climates and connections that can nurture and support each-other as well as create space for a rich ecosystem of others to find their place within.
Month: March 2021
“My eyes are fixed to the distant point where the mire and the forest meet, I can see the blue silhouette of Oratunturi Fell arching behind them. Crooked birches stand on peat islets running through the mire, I feel the rich smell of the mire in my nose. The sky is wide, and the earth. And the mind.”- Kaija Kiuru
Our arts-science lecture series on “Ecology and the Metamorphosis of Modern Society”, in collaboration with the University of Bonn, was organized virtually from November 2020 to February 2021, so as to shift perspectives on ecology and open new dialogues through art.
Storytelling from the perspective of ice, or a stone, a tree, a branch, a ray of light, for me is such an intense way to build a relationship with the Earth. And language becoming a thing that doesn’t separate us from the natural world, but a way of entangling us in its system of exchanges.