Inari kiuru biography for kids
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About the Works
Eye, the beholder II, 2023
locally found discarded material, material experiments and hand-fabricated objects
Eye, the beholder, 2023
series of photographs c. 2013-2023
giglée print on archival stock
Courtesy of the artist
Eye, the beholder
I move about in my neighborhood sliced by tram tracks
Just as I did in the forest as a child,
With the same ease; open, quiet, soft, scanning the ground
Like a curious animal, senses keen
Foraging.
My own children, born here, are already at school
Plenty of years to learn the local pavements, Each crack, stain and spill a remembered shape in me
This kind of knowing is how a wild thing spots what’s fallen newly
- and takes it!
Walking, these instincts, older than my body.
The fragments I gather are no different
From the treasure long ago
A leaf, torn cardboard, a pebble, some wire
Each the only one there is.
And later at home when I arrange my harvest
in ways that please me
I am my ancestors, again.
There’s also this (I can say at fifty, when thoughts sometimes inch towards time):
How a piece of paper gives itself to water
The way a surface rusts, and forgotten stuff merges with the ground
Freely, without hesitation, in full -
not disappearing, but becoming
This is how I, too, would li
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New Spring, Old Gods: Adornment for the people of the bear
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Inari Kiuru: Necklaces from Seven sacrifices of flowers from New Spring, Old Gods series (2020-21). Photo: Inari Kiuru
Inari Kiuru shares the Finnish cultural roots that ground her work, reflecting an enchantment of nature.
New Spring, Old Gods series of jewellery and images (2020 onwards) investigates my Finnish roots and a strong ancestral kinship through the act of making from what is available, together with old Finnish nature-centred beliefs and customs. This article is the first tentative, intuitive (and by no means comprehensive) exploration of these connections–a freeform prelude to further work, research and discovery.
(A message to the reader in Finnish.)
(A message to the reader in English.)
Adapted and expanded from material for IIb, presented during Radiant Pavilion 4-12 September 2021, the original text and images were first published in ordinari observations and in Instagram @ordinari_observer,
Inari Kiuru: White nights, come dancing! from New Spring, Old Gods series (2020). Photo: Inari Kiuru
The birth of the series and finding an ancestral connection
While making the first necklaces for New Spring, Old Gods during last winter’s covid-19 lockdowns, vivid memories from child
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