Show: MUSINGS ON TIME PAST
In Seija's childhood the world consisted of the fields surrounding her home, the nearby forests, and the lake. The family’s dairy farm was like the others. Work was life's meaning and it filled the days: summers in the fields, winters in the forest, and every day the cows.
Musings on Time Past is a tribute to the lifelong labor of the people of Seija's home village in Karelia, eastern Finland. Early impressions are interspersed with the rich memories of later summers spent at the family farm with her sons. The acrylic paintings and related musings are inspired by the film A Lack Thereof by Jussi Silliman which is a poetic portrayal of the same village.
The theme of the exhibition springs from a personal experience of the universal story of our rural past. Nowadays the villages dwindle and many farms are empty, fields reforested. Seija’s village is quieting and reflects familiar change, common to lands from rural Japan to the deserted towns and villages in America.
Many of the paintings and related musings in the exhibition are compiled in a book that benefits the community house in the same village and carries the same name - Musings On Time Past.
