Pilvenvarjot

Abstract

Tämä työ - Pilvenvarjot - käsittelee maisemassa olemista ja maisemassa havaintojen tekemistä, valokuvaamista, maiseman herättämien erilaisten mielikuvien kokemista. Tarkoitus ei ole kertoa mitään yleispätevää vastausta kysymykseen mitä maisemassa oleminen on. Pikemminkin kysymys aukeaa yksilöstä käsin ja jos siinä on joitakin yleisiä tai yksittäisiä havaintoja joihin lukija, katsoja voi samaistua, aukeaa maiseman kokeminen yleisemmäksi metaforiseksi mielentilaksi. Koettu maisema rakentaa kulttuurin, ja vasta subjektista käsin se tulee ymmärrettäväksi, osittain ainakin silloin kun se artikuloituu kieleksi joka on mahdollista toisen ihmisen ymmärtää. Maisemakuvassa on aina synteettinen puoli; yksittäisten keskenään erilaisten maisemien yhdistävä puoli on se, että ne ovat maisemia myös yleisellä tasolla. Siten kuva maisemasta kertoo jotain yleistä ja samalla jotain yksityistä juuri tuosta kuvan kohteen maisemasta.

The work at hand, Overcast is about being in the landscape taking notes, photographing and experiencing the various different mental images that landscapes evokes. There is no sense of telling the general answer to the question of what is experiencing the landscape. In this case, the question opens from with in the subject. Experienced landscape builds a culture; form the subject experience comes understandable, partly when there is a common language at least for two people. From the place of the camera, when shutter opens I believe the two distant subjects becomes one but just for that sensitive moment when shutter opens. When shutter is in it s widest they are one, there is no difference between subject and object. I have worked with Overcast for four years. I started photographing Overcast at 2003 and last visit in the realm of Overcast was in October 2006. Three years is long time for me because I like to visit places shortly, not to stay. But in this case I was impressed about the landscapes. The meaning of the Overcast came to me as latent image, it was hiding under the walk about in Finnish forest, and there I suddenly noticed the common language of places I visited. The places were between the oblivion and present. Like warm memory that nobody cared to remember, if it was human it could barely stand with out a helping hand. Overcast has it s tentacles reach in the past of my being, memorys and people we met during the journey have played important role. And non the less the traveling itself, to bring your eyes to new place is the most important thing, to observe the street life and little movement of light in the landscape. Sunlight is a preobsevator the most eminent sculptor; it makes everything visible wich reflects the light. The right place at right moment that's the question or challenge it throws. Marcel Proust wrote about the particle which is the whole construction that memory was build on just to exist. The permutation of what we see before the memory imprint is formed has its likeness to photography and also to that particle. But when the common aspect of subject matter comes in front of us there is vision. Photography is forged memory but still it is a memory, at lest memory of its own. Photographs have been taken in Baltic region In Latvia, Lithuania and couple in Poland. This Project is partly very self developed. It started when I and my dear friend Kristoffer were ask to have an exhibition in Latvia. We loaded sorted amount of wery fine photographs to Kristoffers skoda favorit and lifted the clutch, in Baltics we went. Overcast is freely translated from Finnish word wich actually means the shadow of the cloud. it has little of melancholy wich is in the pictures but still it bears a hope. It is a neverending process of reoccurance in it saying goodbye means a return.