Resonance, 2025-

Light piece, acrylic resin, iron, sound

Participatory art project, City of Espoo, 2025

Otaniemi Upper Secondary School, Viherlaakso Comprehensive School

In Wassily Kandinsky’s thinking, colour is an active force that acts directly upon the viewer’s inner experience. It is not primarily a representational or symbolic element. Kandinsky describes colour as vibration – as a detail that pierces, that touches the body sensorially – in his seminal text Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911).

At the moment a photograph is taken, as light is filtered through the camera sensor, something is abruptly arrested. A moment is cut out of duration. This suspended moment carries a particular beauty – a beauty that is fragile and vulnerable.

The spiritual corpse of the photograph disappears within the circle of two-dimensionality. This circle functions like a delusion of dualism: everything that surrounds the object would be more meaningful, yet remains unreachable. The circle agitates, reverberates, and continues to resonate within the human mind amid the constant flood of images. From this emerges a perceptual illusion in which experience is guided toward the surface, and the desire to dive deeper gradually fades.

When a person closes themselves off, they also close themselves off from the beauty of the world. Instead of genuine seeing, the multisensory world retreats behind a veil of vision. Vibration persists in the moment.