Inari kiuru biography channel
Her writing about the folklore and traditions of Finnish culture are poetic and fascinating, giving valuable insight into her recent work.
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About the Works
Eye, the beholder II, 2023
locally found discarded material, material experiments and hand-fabricated objects
Eye, the beholder, 2023
series of photographs c.
2013-2023
giglée print on archival stock
Courtesy of the artist
Eye, the beholder
I move about in my neighborhood sliced by tram tracks
Just as I did in the forest as a child,
With the same ease; open, quiet, soft, scanning the ground
Like a curious animal, senses keen
Foraging.
My own children, born here, are already at school
Plenty of years to learn the local pavements, Each crack, stain and spill a remembered shape in me
This kind of knowing is how a wild thing spots what’s fallen newly
- and takes it!
Walking, these instincts, older than my body.
The fragments I gather are no different
From the treasure long ago
A leaf, torn cardboard, a pebble, some wire
Each the only one there is.
And later at home when I arrange my harvest
in ways that please me
I am my ancestors, again.