Pia Lindman Reporting from Kainuu, Kuusamo, and Kilpisjärvi in Finland PART 2

Rovaniemi and Kilpisjärvi

As a result of the exercise by Hannah Star Rogers and Karen Bishop of the Second Order Group at the Field_Notes EOS residency, Bioartsociety, 2018

This image above shows a poem by Pia Lindman. The poem was assembled in collaboration with Hannah Star Rogers and Karen Bishop, members of the Second Order Group at the Field_Notes Ecology of Senses residency at the Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi, organised by Bioartsociety, 2018.

Pia constructed the poem from found objects around the station. The strips of words had been strewn across the area by Hannah and Karen, as part of an exercise given to all the Field_Notes residents.

This poem reads thus (found objects in bold, found words in italics):

an almost black stone

blue strip and two pink strips
please remember to take your shoes off
bury your face in the soil
turn then toward the world

a piece of birch cork - one part of it almost black the other almost white
a twig from a birch, black
the white flowers of a Yarrow plant

two blue strips
to what does our attention turn?
fixes a moment in time

four red berries, a red leaf and another leaf almost red

one yellow strip
leave your mind blank

one yellowish leaf

one blank blue strip

a circle formed by yellowish greenish grass

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