The 11th Hour is a multi-sensorial installation that combines moving image, sound and sculpture to explore tensions between the natural and built environment and question common misconceptions that separate these landscapes from each other. The four-channel video documents a temporary site-specific intervention conducted in 2021 on the border of a nature reserve in southern Finland. In the video, a wide sheet of plastic is almost indiscernible from its snow-blanketed setting. The plastic tarp melds into the land, reflecting the oft-unseen influence people have in shaping the environment and landscape. The video is combined with a field recording in which the environmental sounds of the location are abstracted and made surreal. The installation also features the sheet used in the intervention, which is suspended to create a massive sculpture replicating the shape and form of a snow-laden pine tree.
White Blank Places explores how landscapes are instilled with personal and shared emotions, thoughts, opinions and beliefs. The series reflects on emotions often thought by seldom spoken of, such as isolation, loneliness and a need for closeness.
This world of ours, it bleeds
and its blood is on our hands is essentially a mistake that occurred when processing pictures as part of the White Blank Places. The garish red section is where the digital processing glitched, resulting in a field of red that warps the pictured landscape. The picture subverts the sublime beauty of White Blank Places, instead becoming a jarring reflection of the many mistakes and failures made towards caring for our environments and landscapes.
Even though this exhibition includes moving image, sound, and sculpture, photography remains the essential medium of my artistic practice. It informs how I view and experience the world around me while other media expand on my photographic perception and expression of sights, sounds and other senses. The minimalist and pulled-back aesthetic allows each work to work independently but also as an encompassing entity. It also allows the viewer to reflect on individual images and their interconnections.
