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Katariina Salmijärvi: Pitsiä arjen reunoilla
Lace on Everyday's Edges, nails, 12 m
Puisto Environmental Art Exhibition, Helsinki 2007
"Edging lace is a traditional way of handicraft which has been used to decorate ordinary textiles for example towels and sheets. Katariina Salmijärvi executes to the Park - Environmental Art and Sculpture Exhibition a lace that follows the path beaten to grass and is made by thousands of nail heads. The plant pattern of the lace is a loan from old handicraft models and so it is a tribute to the old skills of handicraft and to the masters of it but it is also a honour to all those who use the path on their ordinary travels to work, shop and library. The work is situated to the back part of Ala-Malmin puisto area where is no ornamental plants so it continues the theme of the park as well there by its geometrical pattern and theme of plants."
Puisto Environmental Art Exhibition, Helsinki 2007
"Edging lace is a traditional way of handicraft which has been used to decorate ordinary textiles for example towels and sheets. Katariina Salmijärvi executes to the Park - Environmental Art and Sculpture Exhibition a lace that follows the path beaten to grass and is made by thousands of nail heads. The plant pattern of the lace is a loan from old handicraft models and so it is a tribute to the old skills of handicraft and to the masters of it but it is also a honour to all those who use the path on their ordinary travels to work, shop and library. The work is situated to the back part of Ala-Malmin puisto area where is no ornamental plants so it continues the theme of the park as well there by its geometrical pattern and theme of plants."
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