The absurd jewelry of the UNREALice challenges us to think about the impact of environmental change on the Arctic lifestyle
In the art of Inari jewelry artist Inka Maarika,, and Swiss photographer Anne Golazi, momentary jewelry has been immortalized in pictures. The jewelry is mostly made of snow and ice.
- I have deliberately chosen young models for the pictures, because their eyes show that wild phase of life between childhood and adulthood, when the mind is still partly in the games of childhood and the worldview is built around one's own circle of life. On the other hand, a broader social vision of the state of the world is awakening in the young person's mind. Youth is as fleeting as the material of jewelry, Inka Maarika describes. Youth reflects arctic winter for the jewelry artist. The rhythm of life in Lapland is the changes between the seasons.
- I have deliberately chosen young models for the pictures, because their eyes show that wild phase of life between childhood and adulthood. The mind is still partly in the games of childhood where the worldview is built around one's own circle of life. On the other hand, a broader social vision of the state of the world is awakening in the young person's mind. Youth is as fleeting as the material of jewelry, Inka Maarika describes.
Youth reflects arctic winter for the jewelry artist. The rhythm of life in Lapland is the changes between the seasons.
- There is always a certain longing when looking at a young person, when you still want to lull the young person into the sense of security of childhood, but you just have to give up and let child free. On the other hand, an adult wonders if the future can still offer this young person and the next generation the same unique lifestyle that we have been able to live?
The way of life and nature have shaped the people and culture of Lapland in a certain direction. What happens when the environment inevitably changes everyday life?
