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Desription
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2016, Wool, 140 cm x 90 cm
The artwork is an example of social art, done in collaboration with the Kisälli workshop in Vihti, employing professional artisans with disabilities. It is a graffiti, woven into a traditional Finnish ryijy-rug.
The project is to show how the means of social art creates conditions for learning and cognitive development for adults with disabilities. The process emphasizes meaningful work and becoming aware of the indivudual’s part in creating a whole.
The graffiti image is an interpretation of a traditional style of graffiti from the 1980s’. The word RUG refers to the English name of the ryijy.
”I wanted to use a general word which does not refer to any specific person or group (unlike graffitis usually). The colours imitate the reflection of a chrome surface. The gradient blue and brown are the reflections of the sky and earth with the silhouette of a horizon in between. This effect is commonly used in graffitis.”
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