The artwork ”Konkelo” ("a wind trap") transforms from a pile of trees torn down by a storm into a twisted log frame.

Hannes Aleksi got the idea for this work from his own forest. Artis and Logbuilder Hannes Aleksi dislikes clearcuttings and manages his own forests by means of continuous-cover silviculture.

”I would like to keep my patch of forest standing, but now that the forest around it has been clearcut, also my trees are being torn down by the storms.”

Seems like our culture as a whole is in a state of ”konkelo” (a wind trap, tangled mess). We have to sacrifice our environment and health to our strive after financial wellbeing, contemplates a traditional log builder, one of our endangered species himself, in Lapinjärvi exposition.

Land Art Lapinjärvi

Land Art Lapinjärvi has invited a group of spanish artists (Cova) and some finnish artists to a workshop of environmental art in Lapinjärvi 21.-28.7.2018. The Exposition breathes with the seasons and will serve as a basis for a new gallery of environmental art.

Location: Lapinjärvi village. Date: Opening 28.7. From then on the exposition breathes with time.

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