Yömaja/Shelter, bambukaihdin ja muste/bambu window shade, ink, 2006

installation against the wall

Question on Food Revolution, questioning what do you eat?

Beetroot Revolution Now
Art Revolution
Pop Revolution
Rock revolution
Feminist revolution
Love Revolution 
Ant Revolution
Velvet Revolution
Orange Revolution
Great October Socialist Revolution
Consumer Revolution
High Tech Revolution
Walking Revolution
Singing Revolution
Uprising 8888
Revolution in Ethiopia
Green Forest Rebellion
Marxist Nicaraguan Revolution
Lithuania
Estonia
Burma
Syrian Coup d’etat
White Revolution
Carnation
Rose Yellow
Pink Revolution
Gender Revolution
Sexual Revolution
Red Eyebrow Army
The First Intifada
The People Power Revolution
fall of the Berlin wall
Moldavian Revolution
French Revolution
Satsuma Revolution

There are some radical contradictions in the picture of salvation. First what is salvasion, how we pursue it, how we select which ones are worthy of rescuing and how we place grounds for saving. In order to be saved something has to be gone wrong. Our inhabiting the world being one major threat and violent act against the world, against ourselves. Our blue planet, our nature, nature of having and owning. What is what is rightfully ours are our lives.

Us against us, we against animals. It is a place of excellence to put oneself against, on place of righteousness, of knowing and having force over. People who have placed themselves on pedestals to have leadership. It is one way of evolving and building cultures, to follow something, someone who knows where to go. How long does master race last on that mastering spot? There is the world of nature of which we are part organically, biologically, on cell level and also mentally we still have animal instincts in us working

Left behind/ Taakse jätetty 2012

Feelings arise in a world like this. Feelings of frustration, anger, hate, anxiety, sadness, distress. Such emotions are considered negative and not to be publicly shown if anywhere. They are if wisely used material in understanding oneself. Thought is and should be why do I feel this way. Why do I hate so much that I feel like smacking that person I do not know. If one is grown into these feelings from early on without possibility to learn to understand them, they will eat you alive. If the environment is landscaped with negativity, depression and future does not look too bright how can a person begin to understand patterns of human behavior, why things happen as they do, what is my purpose in all this. How to avoid cynicism, grow a healthy self-esteem or healthy caring relationships?

How to understand how we make culture. Where does it come from, what does it do, how does it evolve, what is my part in all this. What do we call culture, see as worthy cultures, how does worth begin? Why am I asking these questions is because there is a need for conversation every day to go through what can I do, what can anybody do and what is creativity for anybody. Conversations with myself and with others. My task is to find different kinds of solutions and channels to be creative. Where do we start, how do we evaluate ourselves and how does that impact on what we do and what we can do.

I measure myself from a perspective that I put myself into and I am put into. It is a curious installation-performance-act of daily maneuvers and assumptions. Mind game kind of play that goes on in terms of how I should be, how I see myself and how do I want to be. I have a strong feeling that even though I very much decide what I do, I’m not fully in charge. I unconsciously and consciously censor myself. There is a terrible need for others, people who do not even know me, put person like me in a certain place and frame. It is terrible, because I think it is common, very much a norm behavior to be a controller of others. It is an atmosphere of not much needs to be said, but we know what is normal, how things should be done. Expectations and all that. It is a solid foundation to begin a change of attitudes and behavior towards each other. This is basis to my subject revolution, when is it and what is it. 

Päivän vehje

daz

Stimulated,simulated, negotiated, forced, inflicted, given, numbed, self-inflicted, felt, lived through, avoided, how much pain is necessary, can one take, because without so-called suffering we don’t live. How do we call our pain? Do we exaggerate, complain, overexaggerate, do we compare ourselves to others and to their pain. Do we see it, effort, agony, lack of effort? To see an effort to gain, to learn, to work, to get something done. How much do our feelings guide our lives, our pain?

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We as people have hearts. That is what connects us, our anatomy and mental abilities, compassion and ability to empathise. Feel for someone, feel what that other is feeling. To possess on organ creating consciousness and state of mind (brain meaning heart) that can relate to other living organisms. Isn’t it seen as intellectual to suspend emotions, stay correct, cool politeness at a cocktail party, in an interview, panel discussion, at school etc.. Intellectual achievement like solving a problem, but staying distant. Political correctness, politically said, politically proper, no cakes on anyone’s faces. No screaming feminists. To think of someone else’s place, experiences, to think of someone else than yourself, altruistic approach, what can you do to others instead of thinking what can you gain from them or how do you look.

Intellect is an interesting topic to dive into in terms of revolution and social change. Who has intellect since it is a possession more and more abstract and what is intellect. It is so easy to be fooled. Living in conceptualized world, as our world becomes technologically instructed, constructed, led by unknown money, invisible power hands, lived with machinery, intellectually immaterial and visually stunning information cacophony, but stay correct and calm, since you are selling you, constantly. Intellect seen as heritage is a class society gift. People wrapped up and ready on levels of their breed, economy level, education level, society dividing us still within traditional, imagined, sexed capabilities – what can you do, what can you learn, how can you unlearn the notion that one cannot do something, thinking men can, women can’t. Divisions, classes, social ruling by

those who do not allow. That is intolerable! Emotions as world molding force. Huge. Is the counter pool nonexistent or is it emotionless machine-like humanity? Curious..

Juhani Palmun varjossa, Juhani Palmun alla.

Picnic, Juhani Palmun varjossa 2001

Pure reason, what is that? What is pure about it?

Understanding that everything is sacred, means everything entails spirituality even shit. Especially shit, it makes plants grow. It is a moment and what is, what could be, to become and will be. Spirituality is about continuation, about on going life, of consciousness, ability to grow, courage to change and be kind.  It is beautiful, ecstatic, uplifting and fulfilling. Every human being has spirituality whether he/she is able to express it or not, or to admit the existence of holy. Something unexplained in us and around. How could it be reasoned and why should it?  In terms of spirituality it is a shame it is rooted to religions, been bind, sacred put into appropriate molds, put to pieces and organized, controlled. Put to shame. As I look around I see very little of spirituality anywhere. Is the church the only proper place for us to practice spirituality and how practice it in everyday life with dignity it deserves? What is spirituality in our modern world? Or do we need it? Got to have faith and believe even if I don’t see the sacred, it is there.

This tree is sacred. I’m asking though I already know. Are you sure? Is there an answer in the question?