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Garden of Thousand flowers



Why we are here and where we came from ?

Stephen Hawking,  A Brief History of Time

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Past is present series

Elina Honkanen

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Ring

Nelli Tanner

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to think, marble chalk 

Nelli Tanner

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult

 

'What is that?

 


Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions

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Suggestions for a spoon

Elina Honkanen

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Nelli Tanner

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Nelli Tanner

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Sophie's World (Norwegian: Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked "Who are you?" in a letter from an unknown philosopher.

 

The nonfictional content of the book aligns with Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy

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Tarja Tuupanen

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Walnut milk 

spoon from Suggestions for a spoon, 2020
Elina Honkanen

Veera Kulju
Mirrors  / Exhale
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The same door / brooch from series Times passing

Elina Honkanen

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The sculptural composition ́Summer ́ by Inni Pärnänen

The flower sculpture of her work is built on a principle that allows it to grow, like a fragment from what may have been a much larger hanging.

 

 

It can be related to a type known as millefleurs, meaning a thousand flowers. This was a style in the late 15th, and millefleurs were woven in many different centers and workshops in Northern France and Flanders. They often included small animals and birds among the flowers, in which case the animals might be symbolic. The installation invites visitors to take part in the creation of the Garden of a Thousand Flowers by drawing plants, flowers or the inhabitants of the garden.

 

 

 

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Elina Honkanen

Past is present series

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.Helena Lehtinen

Guest Star #123..

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Anna Rikkinen

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Tarja Tuupanen

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Anna Rikkinen

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Tarja Tuupanen

Janna Syvänoja

"The knowledge passed through my mind like a ray of light and
immediately reminded me of a phrase which I had learned during my
novitiate year, which had always pleased me immensely without my realizing
its full significance. It was a phrase by the poet Novalis, "Where are we
really going? Always home!"

Hermann Hesse, Die Morgenlandfahrt  

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Janna Syvänoja

“When you’re a child you learn there are three dimensions
Height, width and depth
Like a shoebox
Then later you hear there’s a fourth dimension
Time
Hmm
Then some say there can be five, six, seven…

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I look down at the glass and feel glad”

Ron Padgett

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Janna Syvänoja

Installations of the exhibition inspired by the work of Icelandic conceptual artist Hreinn Fridfinnsson. He often presents found objects , creating new works that investigate ideas of the self and of time. Following the consistency of theme and a common thread of Hulduklettur, cardboard boxes of the installations contain objects , photography, drawings and texts to explore.

https://hreinnfridfinnsson.com/

https://anhava.com/artists/hreinn-fridfinnsson/

H R E I N N  F R I D F I N N S S O N Born 1943 in Dalir, Iceland
Lives and works in Amsterdam

The photographs  were taken in Amsterdam and Helsinki.

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Hulduklettur,  Hreinn Fridfinnsson.

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