Sense of time
We all have our personal sense of time. We also have the horizon of the family, of culture, but there is also geological time, cosmic time...so
What is Time ?
How we experience and define time ?
Elina Honkanen
Was it, Past is present series 2019
Made of precious metal leaves and polycarbonate. Playing with vintage mirror shapes and the thought of preserving memories between pages of an album that is yourself.
“It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree.”
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Time is relative
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
Albert Einstein
Her, 2019
brooch from Past is present series
Elina Honkanen
Once Upon a Time...
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Brooch, 2020,
vintage textiles, glass beads
Helena Lehtinen
Freya-collection, 2021
Annika Eklöf
Peilit – Mirrors, 2005
Anna Rikkinen
Vanaheim ring, 2019
Annika Eklöf
Mythological Time
In Norse cosmology, Vanaheimr (Old Norse for 'home of the Vanir') is a location associated with the Vanir, a group of gods themselves associated with fertility, wisdom, and the ability to see the future. Vanaheimr is attested in the Poetic Edda; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources.
Freya ring, 2019
Annika Eklöf
In the Norse mythology, Freya is the goddess of love and fertility.
Since ancient times, people have honoured the summer solstice - the longest day and shortest night of the year - with ritual fires and flowers as a sign of rebirth and new life.
Day & Night bracelets, 2023
plywood
Inni Pärnänen
"They sat looking out across the bay. A few stars glimmered palely in the light sky. Gentle waves lapped over the stones under the dock.
Her father broke the silence.
“It’s a strange thought that we live on a tiny little planet in the universe.”
“Yes ...”
The distance to the star in the Milky Way that is our nearest neighbor is four light-years. Maybe that’s it just above the island over there. If you could imagine that at this very moment a stargazer is sitting up there with a powerful telescope pointing at Bjerkely—he would see Bjerkely as it looked four years ago. He might see an eleven-year-old girl swinging her legs.....
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.”
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Stellar V, 2019
Vesa Nilsson
Snäckviken (Shell Bay) collection
Snäckviken ring and pendant
gold, pearl
Annika Eklöf
Coastline paradox, 2024
Giclée-print
Irene Sema
Find the Pearl
Quest
5+
Once Upon a Time..., 2023
Irene Sema
Veera Kulju
Sounds of Silence, 2017
video, hand woven textile, hand casted ceramic keys
concept and artwork: Veera Kulju film and edit: Ananya Tanttu choreography and dance: Satu Halttunen video edition of 3 3/3 in Arabia Art Department Society’s collection
“Sounds associated with the forest come close to playing the main role in a video installation, in which a dancer puts on a sculpture – like textile artwork.
With the movement, the work comes to life both as a visual object and a shamanic costume akin to a musical instrument, reacting to bodily movements. It may also be construed as a gigantic piece of jewellery, a body accessory requiring a wearer in order to become complete. The dance work provides a kind of key to Kulju’s entire production. It is based, like dance often is, on the balancing of strength and fragility.”
Veikko Halmetoja,
Secret empire" 2024
81 x 240 cm
Paper, colours from plants
Janna Syvänoja
Every-Minute Zen
Zen students are with their masters at least two years before they presume
to teach others. Nan-in was visited by Tenno, who, having passed his
apprenticeship, had become a teacher. The day happened to be rainy, so
Tenno wore wooden clogs and carried an umbrella. After greeting him
Nan-in remarked: "I suppose you left your wooden clogs in the vestibule. I
want to know if your umbrella is on the right or left side of the clogs."
Tenno, confused, had no instant answer. He realized that he was unable to
carry his Zen every minute. He became Nan-in's pupil, and he studied six
more years to accomplish his every-minute Zen.
Nyogen Senzaki, 101 Zen Stories