Garden of Stones and aThousand Flowers

Why we are here and where we came from ?

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

Garden of Stones

and

a Thousand Flowers

Where are we going ?

What were the philosophers thinking about in the Greek Gardens?

.Helena Lehtinen

Guest Star

Structure of matter

Structure of matter has been a subject of interest since antiquity (here about 400s BCE) when Democritus named the fundamental elements of matter “atomos” (“invisible”) While his interpretation of atomic properties and structure is more on philosophical side one can see some deep ideas that became scientifically verifiable and formalised only in the last 100 years.

Few decades consisted of efforts of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, de Broglie, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and others in the developing quantum theory, used to construct an accurate description of atoms .

Suggestions for a spoon

Elina Honkanen

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult

'What is that?

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions

THE GARDEN OF EDEN …

at some point something must have come from nothing …

Sophie’s World, Jostien Gaarder

Sophie's World is a novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. The nonfictional content of the book aligns with Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy

It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked "Who are you?" in a letter from an philosopher.

EDEN ring / Vesa Nilsson

Tarja Tuupanen

“Everything flows,” said Heraclitus

Nelli Tanner

Tarja Tuupanen

Anna Rikkinen

A Portrait Installation

.Helena Lehtinen

Annika Eklöf

.Petri Eklöf

Vesa Nilsson

Stellar rings

The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then.

When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.”

Summer ́ by Inni Pärnänen

The flower sculpture of her work is built on a principle that allows it to grow, like a fragment from what may have been a much larger hanging.

It can be related to a type known as millefleurs, meaning a thousand flowers. This was a style in the late 15th, and millefleurs were woven in many different centers and workshops in Northern France and Flanders. They often included small animals and birds among the flowers, in which case the animals might be symbolic. The installation invites visitors to take part in the creation of the Garden of a Thousand Flowers by drawing plants, flowers or the inhabitants of the garden.