Contemporary Design

Once Home to Us by Olli Majalahti

The installation forms a tetralogy perceived from an animal’s point of view. The first three chapters, presented as posters, were done during the first week of the course in the forests of Koli.
In the fourth chapter, Once Home to Us, animals respond to failed attempts at collaboration with humans by revealing what it means when human practices colonize their habitats. Since World War II, clear-cutting has been (and still is) the most popular tree-harvesting method in Finland.

Materials: Scrap steel
Tall thin metal rods arranged in a row against a plain grey background
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Snowy clear-cut forest with a small group of tall pines in misty grey light
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Blurred person walks among tall, thin metal rod sculptures in a grey studio space
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Close-up of rusty ribbed steel rods welded together against a dark background
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Rusty metal rods curve on a pale floor, with crumpled red and white paper caught around one rod.
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Three thin, dark metal rods standing upright against a plain grey background
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Three white illustrated posters on a tall wooden wall above a small dark stand with a pale sculpture.
Photo: Olli Majalahti
Tall, thin metal rod sculptures like abstract trees on a grey studio floor, one tip marked red.
Photo: Olli Majalahti

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