Memory of an instant: The Token Brooches

  • Eea Vatanen
Memory of an instant explores the artist's embodied memory surrounding a specific fell located in the Northern Finland, Lapland. Venturing to the wilderness, documenting it through series of photographs inspired the artist to raise the form of the photograph into an object of it's own right. Through the used of transparent materials she is framing the reality, allowing the viewer see through the pieces to the world around them while projecting her own work into their mindscape. By the use of laser etching she carved pictures of the tokens gathered during the experience, thus linking it with the unique environment surrounding the bare fell in the middle of nowhere. The transparency also leaves the pieces into a constant change - as hte light changes and shadows deepen the look of the transparent pieces alters as a new perspective arises.
Memory of an instant collection is consisted of two different type of brooches: The Ephemeral Brooches and the Token Brooches.