Exploring The Artefact

One of our transgressional exercises whilst visiting Finland and Denmark was to carry a small hand-held Artifact, and immerse that Artefact into various situations and contexts. We then recorded the process, in order to explore ways of seeing the everyday object as something different to the everyday, and concurrently re-interpret the spaces it inhabited.

Bagsvaerd Church

Bagsvaerd Church, Copenhagen, Jorn Utzon 1974-6




Haiku

"Pale sky manifest
In billowing concrete cloud,
Frames prayer in warm light"

Aalto Experimental House

Aalto Experimental House, Muuratsalo, Alvar Aalto 1952-3




Haiku

"Nestled by the lake
Treading lightly on the ground,
Aalto's Modest Cave"

Kaleva

Kaleva Church, Tampere, Reima and Raili Pietila 1964-6




Haiku

"Such weighty pillars
Create unfillable void,
Dwarfing those who kneel"

Hyvinkaa

Hyvinkaa Church, Hyvinkaa, Aarno Ruusuvuori, 1961




Haiku

"The collision of
Two euclidean giants,
Drew my gaze aloft"

Otaniemi Chapel

Chapel, Otaniemi University Campus, Kaija and Heikki Siren 1957





Haiku

"The Finnish spirit,
Nurtured not by the priest's word,
But nature beyond."

Hvittrask

Hvittrask, Studio home of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen, 1902



Haiku

"A peace transcending
Empirical responses,
Sky reflecting lake"