’Growing’

’A face that is mirroring in the water and, on clear days, will find its double that will complete itself.
Eye reflecting the sky… or is it full of sky? A sun is glowing in that absorbed gaze.
A rain of color bathes that face, with the shades of the seasons, and makes it grow to the rhythm of the land and the forest.
Sucking the nourishment with the firm roots, it changes and grows, while its mind is intersecting in branches of life…
in a flourishing metamorphosis.’

 

Valentina Gelain and Bekim Hasaj painted the site-specific piece ‘Growing’ for the Mural Rural Festival organised by Art in Malakta rf in 2021, in town of Maalahti/Malax.

Thank you: Ramirent Finland Oy | Building: Jarla Products Oy.

 

Info artwork: water-based paint on zinc, 10m(b)x5m(h)x1m(d).

Cover/Panoramic photo credits (fourth one in order): Sebastian Sundlin