4 – 10 September 2024
Climate Whirl Art Program
I stay at the Hyytiälä Forest Station of the University of Helsinki, to do artistic research. I’m hosted as artist-in-residence by their Climate Whirl Art Program. I work outside most of the time, in the forest or in the Siikaneva wetland, a 9000-year-old pristine peatland—a unique swamp—nearby. The weather is warm and sunny—remarkably, during the time I stayed there, the temperatures in the region continuously reached record highs—above 24, 25° Celsius for several days in succession in the beginning of September—yet another sign of how climates are changing, even in central Finland.