Tarinoita Itämerestä - Stories from the Baltic Sea is the name of a project which aims to raise an awareness of the importance of the Baltic Sea.
It is part of the British Council Finland's Challenge Europe project which goal is to create and develop new ways to approach climate change.
During winter 2010-2011 various stories related to the sea were collected from people of all ages, that are or have been in connection with the Baltic Sea.
After being inspired by those texts, poems, diaries and photographs - a group of artists have created different environmental artworks, which are now exhibited on Harakka Island (Helsinki) until the end of May.
The exhibition gets the same name as the project: Tarinoita Itämerestä - Stories from the Baltic Sea.
LINKS
project website: http://storiesfromthebalticsea.org/
facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stories-from-the-Baltic-Sea-Tarinoita-Itämerestä/153586148020148
facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145986845465478
harakka island page: http://www.harakka.fi/
Pulloviesti Kokoelma Itämereltä - Collection of Bottle-Messages from the Baltic Sea is my contribution to Tarinoita Itämerestä.
I have been living by the sea for less than a year, but it didn't take too long for me to develop a deep affection for the Baltic Sea - Itämeri (East Sea) in finnish - and to realize that its ecosystem is in great danger, due to the pollution of its waters and shores.
according to various stories, both true and fictional, the most common way to send SOS messages through the sea is via a bottle.
In Pulloviesti Kokoelma Itämereltä it is the sea sending out its SOS message using this form of communication.
When the winter was coming to an end and the snow begun to melt, I had started collecting different types of waste around the shores.
I had been dividing waste into groups of similar colours and materials, to place them into transparent glass bottles.
When a collection of twenty bottle-messages was completed, I have placed part of the bottles inside an exhibition vitrine and part of them I have left on the shores of Harakka Island - where the exhibition is taking place.
Finally, I have hand-crafted a series of postcards which present a map on the back side, so that - if interested - every visitor could follow a path to find all the rest of the bottle-messages around the island.
It is part of the British Council Finland's Challenge Europe project which goal is to create and develop new ways to approach climate change.
During winter 2010-2011 various stories related to the sea were collected from people of all ages, that are or have been in connection with the Baltic Sea.
After being inspired by those texts, poems, diaries and photographs - a group of artists have created different environmental artworks, which are now exhibited on Harakka Island (Helsinki) until the end of May.
The exhibition gets the same name as the project: Tarinoita Itämerestä - Stories from the Baltic Sea.
LINKS
project website: http://storiesfromthebalticsea.org/
facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stories-from-the-Baltic-Sea-Tarinoita-Itämerestä/153586148020148
facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145986845465478
harakka island page: http://www.harakka.fi/
Pulloviesti Kokoelma Itämereltä - Collection of Bottle-Messages from the Baltic Sea is my contribution to Tarinoita Itämerestä.
I have been living by the sea for less than a year, but it didn't take too long for me to develop a deep affection for the Baltic Sea - Itämeri (East Sea) in finnish - and to realize that its ecosystem is in great danger, due to the pollution of its waters and shores.
according to various stories, both true and fictional, the most common way to send SOS messages through the sea is via a bottle.
In Pulloviesti Kokoelma Itämereltä it is the sea sending out its SOS message using this form of communication.
When the winter was coming to an end and the snow begun to melt, I had started collecting different types of waste around the shores.
I had been dividing waste into groups of similar colours and materials, to place them into transparent glass bottles.
When a collection of twenty bottle-messages was completed, I have placed part of the bottles inside an exhibition vitrine and part of them I have left on the shores of Harakka Island - where the exhibition is taking place.
Finally, I have hand-crafted a series of postcards which present a map on the back side, so that - if interested - every visitor could follow a path to find all the rest of the bottle-messages around the island.