Today I made art

My parents and I assisted my parents' neighbour, a professional artist, on her environmental artwork, by picking, carrying and placing stones of various sizes. The artwork represents bread and comments on the uneven distribution of food in the world. In the middle of the "bread" there are spoons stuck on a piece of log and surrounded by more rocks. The artwork is not yet ready - the spaces between the rocks will be filled with soil and have dandelions planted (dandelion's Finnish name translates to "butter flower" - you know, butter on the bread). There might be other additions to the artwork as well.

An artistic couple living in a village of Niva, (located between my parents' home and mine) have allowed various artists to use part of their property for environmental art made of stones found on the property (an excavator was used to assist in the process of getting the stones). The were also two Russian artists currently working on the site. Later in the summer there will be art from other artists.

It was a fun day, good exercise and it was gratifying to see a vision gradually come to reality even if the vision isn't mine. Also, the weather was good, the host couple was really nice and fed us delicious food. And they had lambs. And nice dogs.