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Here some things which caught my eye in Finland.
Many toilets are shared.
Finns love candies, here one candy shop in Big Apple shopping center.
Candy selection in a cinema.
Finns, also adults love candy!
I do not think that these guys eat all the candies,
it is just the traditional dresses they wear that make them looks big.
When I was a kid we used to call them "mustalaiset",
today that is absolutely politically incorrect,
today they are called "romanit".
The Finnish Kale
(Romani: Kàlo; Swedish: Kalé; Finnish: Kaale,
also Suomen romanit "Finnish Romani")
are a group of the Romani people who live primarily in Finland and Sweden.
Romaninaisen puku on saanut mallinsa valtaväestön naisen kansanpuvusta.
Romaninaiset pukeutuivat puseroineen, hameineen ja esiliinoineen suunnilleen
samalla lailla valtaväestön naisten kanssa 1800-luvun lopulle saakka.
Romaninaisten pukeutuminen on aikojen saatossa ja vaurastumisen myötä
muuttunut yhä koreammaksi. Nykyisin useimmat romaninaiset pukeutuvat paljetein
ja kultanauhoin koristeltuun röyhelöiseen puseroon ja erityiseen romanihameeseen.
Paksusta mustasta sametista valmistettava hame on varsin pitkä ja leveä,
sekä nousee vyötäröllä varsin korkealle.
(Wikipedia)
Ulla Jokisalo, artist.
Artist
The eye is very often present.
And the needle.
Finnisch für Anfänger:
SILMÄ = Auge / eye
SILMÄNEULA = Nadel / needle
Woven eye in Ulla Jokisalo's work.
This is not a retrospective exhibition, however, but a new kind of
artistic configuration based on a dialogue between older
collection works and recent ones produced specifically for this show.
The exhibition includes about 60 works completed in 2018.
Näyttely jatkuu ensi vuoteen asti: 27.1.2019.
What also caught my eye: a wonderful Finnish stamp!
You know, of course, that swan is the national bird of Finland.
Not only Ulla Jokisalo has the eye in her art,
the British artist Grayson Perry had some magic works with eyes.
His exhibition in Kiasma Art Gallery is worth seeing.
The eye.
Yes, many eyes.
Awesome.
The artist has made those "pots" himself.
And decorated them as well - wonderful.
Pretty amazing.
Kind of fancy those decorations of the pots.
Vain syyskuun toiseen päivään asti Kiasmassa,
jengit menkää ihmeessä ihmettelemään,
ja katsokaa se videohaastattelu kanssa.
Just a detail.
Storytelling ... who has woven these huge things?
Who could tell?
Yes, I also did visit the exhibition in Taidehalli
showing David Hockney, but no photos allowed.
