Shachindra Dass

Like dropping a stone in water, the ripple spreads far beyond the initial impact. Every change in a person ripples outward. As humans grow and transform throughout their lives, they don't just change themselves, they reshape their surroundings and society. This continuous stream of change never stops flowing.

Performance and co-artist Heli Hietala.

The body is the first shelter for ourselves. To protect the body become the other shelters, which create comfort or discomfort. The movement is created by these forces. Trying to find a solution for the moving elements outside. By sensing and being alert without seeing what happens around. Then comes the story created by the one who sees what happens, witnessing the process of the search for shelter.

Performance and co-artist Heli Hietala.

We generate organically and inorganically. When generated generates the generator, there are no boundaries of intention left. The control is elsewhere. There is no grip on time.

How fragile is our home? Nothing stays permanently no matter how hard we try to re-enforce it with material. Escape is not the answer.

Performance and co-artist Heli Hietala.

Who are the enlightened beings in the Land of Lords? Sadhu´s and the monkeys living on the shores of river Ganges have different points of view. It can be love for God, love for natural-wisdom or love for survival.

Sometimes fears are exaggerated and let to invade the conscience. The snowball effect of untamed thoughts growing on itself gets unbearable. It’s that nightmare which distorts the self and suffocates.

A bridge has only two ways to go. Front and back. Watching the bidirectional simplicity of a rural Indian bridge is an intriguing experience.

Going Somewhere? has also been used for art therapy at:

1. Pitkäniemi psychiatric hospital 2015
2. Kauppi hospital 2013
3. Koukkuniemi retirement home 2013

Pekka Fofonoff from Inari had something to teach – Life!

Changing perspectives in International non co-operation with time.

Sky burns. An expression of the changing natural elements over time.

Water burns. An expression of the changing natural elements over time.

Images of a scar that does not heal easily.