Bonfire

The artworks of Bonfire-exhibition approached fire and an idea of burning with personal notes of an encountering around campfire in Wiepersdorf, Germany, where I spent four months as an artist in residency. We who lived there carried wood from the near forest, and in my mind this became like a form of common effort to generate good things.

I wrote to my notebook: ”Wir gingen mehrere male in den Wald um Holz für das Lagerfeuer zu sammeln”, ”Me menimme usein metsään keräämään puita nuotioon.” We were born as a group who share things. Same time I was reading about Heraclitus (Herakleitos), the ancient Greek philosopher, who’s thoughts exist as fragments. He thought that it is the same fire which burns in sun, in a fireplace, in lightning. Fire is fire when it changes its form while burning. Fire is like an eternal fuel which is part of the events of change, destruction and birth.