I had seen Wilma Hurskainen’s photographs at my friend’s hotel room in the Spring 2009 and went to look for her other works online. There I found a series called Saara, which had a big influence on me. Once browsing through the photographs and reading the texts that accompanied them, I started to think how is everyday life without sight. How to travel from home to school every day with public transport. How scary is it when you can’t see and there is nobody around to ask for directions?
As my life, work and studies are so visual at the moment I wanted to go deeper into the subject. I’m also not skilled with sounds and music, so concentrating in my next project to things that differ from visual is a challenge. Sense of smell, hearing and tactile will be the keywords for the project.
- Liisa Tervinen
We all, as kids have played the game where a friend traces letters on your back and you have to guess what he/she wrote -
This project for me is like a suspension into this short moment of closed eyes where all our focus is turned to the pressure and patterns of the finger tip moving on our backs.
If we concentrate really hard we would make the abstract connection of between these movements, to things(alphabets) we have learnt outside of the game.
I cant begin to imagine what it would be like to make meaning of the world with our eyes always closed..
This project is my attempt to understand this state of being, seek inspiration from it and articulate my own role as a creative practitioner within this context.
- Ramyah Gowrishankar
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