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The infamous mounds. This is where they piled all the excess soil when they built Siltamäki.
Now it's favored by youngsters that go there to get drunk despite being under-aged. There's also plenty of people playing disc golf, flying kites and doing other summer activities. During winter it's populated by skiers.

Here is also a piece of art that has inspired me called Monumentti tavallisille (Monument to Ordinary People) by Radoslaw Gryta. It's a poem written by Tadeus Rózewicz inscripted on rough granite boulders. Here's what HAM (Helsinki Art Museum) has written about it:

Radoslaw Gryta (b. 1955) proclaims that the monument's purpose is to honour ordinary, day-to-day life. It is also a protest against pompous war memorials and heroic statues. The monument is placed on a grassy slope so that the 12 boulders stand loosely apart and viewers must walk from boulder to boulder in order to read the poem. The work does not have an imposing mass to force it's message on viewers. Instead, it is up to them to decide whether to respond to receive it. Also, the poem's fragments are sometimes difficult to read, which highlights its content and makes each word matter.
Here is a link to the site so you can view the full article from HAM's website. It is in English and Finnish.

This is a similar thing what I try to achieve with my art.
The painting happens to be painted roughly at the same spot where they have taken the photograph. This is merely a coincidence.
I started painting this during summer but finished it recently as I got more bright blue paint.

"Kummut"
Acrylics on canvas.
40x50 cm (~16x20 inches).
This painting is a part of Näkymiä Siltamäestä-project.
30.12.2017

Description
The infamous mounds. This is where they piled all the excess soil when they built Siltamäki.
Now it's favored by youngsters that go there to get drunk despite being under-aged. There's also plenty of people playing disc golf, flying kites and doing other summer activities. During winter it's populated by skiers.

Here is also a piece of art that has inspired me called Monumentti tavallisille (Monument to Ordinary People) by Radoslaw Gryta. It's a poem written by Tadeus Rózewicz inscripted on rough granite boulders. Here's what HAM (Helsinki Art Museum) has written about it:

Radoslaw Gryta (b. 1955) proclaims that the monument's purpose is to honour ordinary, day-to-day life. It is also a protest against pompous war memorials and heroic statues. The monument is placed on a grassy slope so that the 12 boulders stand loosely apart and viewers must walk from boulder to boulder in order to read the poem. The work does not have an imposing mass to force it's message on viewers. Instead, it is up to them to decide whether to respond to receive it. Also, the poem's fragments are sometimes difficult to read, which highlights its content and makes each word matter.
Here is a link to the site so you can view the full article from HAM's website. It is in English and Finnish.

This is a similar thing what I try to achieve with my art.
The painting happens to be painted roughly at the same spot where they have taken the photograph. This is merely a coincidence.
I started painting this during summer but finished it recently as I got more bright blue paint.

"Kummut"
Acrylics on canvas.
40x50 cm (~16x20 inches).
This painting is a part of Näkymiä Siltamäestä-project.
30.12.2017