It was black at first. Just like adeath of tree. And I was coveres (dressed) in white, Just like when I was born, By the vastness (eternity) of the beach
The purity of my being wxperienced the blood of the earth, And then, I was green all over while released of all boundaries. In the cover, I put on my veil since we have always been together, ever since I was 9. smetimes out of divine love and sometimes out of hatred. Now I only enjoy it's purity, and it plainness, It's whiteness and i offer all of this to the endless greatness. I have used natural materials from the specifiv sites to perform this pice in different environments. Also my friends help me to record these performancese every time
Hand is a symbol, coming from ancient customs which is found in most of the cultures in diggerent shapes and meanings and also it is one of the signs which have remained of primary people. paim reading in some culture was a way to tell the future of people. It os also known as the human senond's eye.
The form of "hand with open fingers" was used in pre Islamic Iran, but nowadays it is thw symbol of the thirs shiites imam's brother, abbas. Forty is a symbolic number to different culture and also it is a measure to show numerousness.
“68 musty glasses from the party”
After one month mother and father came back from Mecca.
(Pilgrimage).
Family, friends, colleagues and neighbors came to visit them.
Now there are some musty Paper glasses next to me and the memory of the party days. A Friday. At home.
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In the "Chador ", I put on my veil since we have always been together, ever since I was 9, Sometimes out of divine love and sometimes out of hatred.
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It is an interesting dichotomy to try and make something beatuiful out of polluted materials that have attractive characteristics, like the light shining through a mass of these clear plastic bottles. By attracting an audience we hope to make them aware of its very physical presence and introduce them to the danders.
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Visual artist Jonna Pohjalainen lives and works in Oulunkylä, Helsinki. |