Pylväsvuo

Pylväsvuo is a site specific artwork in the village of Pylväs in Northern Finland. A series of interventions that leverage the cultural meaning of locations along the Ängeslevä road, and are an inseparable part of the village's history. Using polarizing filters and wave plates, the intervention creates mirage-like graphics in the landscape that appear and disappear in response to the viewer's movement.

Experimenting with material properties and CNC fabrication techniques the artwork combines “analog” sustainable elegance with bespoke digital aesthetics.

The visual motifs in the land art project stemmed from lengthy conversations with the local community, who embraced the work as theirs, and as a result triggered further self-initiated cultural projects.