Sari Torvinen is a visual artist based in Turku, Finland. She joined Godzilla from Mariehamn, and travelled with the boat to Björkö, Vitören, Nötö and Seili (Sjölö). Her art practice has lately shifted from videos to drawing and painting. She is focusing on the questions of agriculture and food security in current turbulent times, and the sense of mutual care between a plant and a farmer, or whoever has planted something in hope for crop or beauty.

During the Godzilla residency Torvinen was curious to try new ways to explore artistic practices. As she has worked with quite earthy subjects and soil, she was in the first place interested how the ground meets the sea. “The fertilizers e.g. have their effect on seawater. Now it feels like I could just let the seawater paint something for me. Another idea is to let my old video camera do its last effort. I know that there’s one button that I’ve never used: The infrared shooting mode. So, let’s see what I find with it on a dark August night.”

“As I grew up in the East of Finland, the Baltic Sea still has some exotic quality to me. The color of the water and fish is different, the plants on the shores are different. But living 25 years on its shore now has provided splendid day trips to the islands and I’ve worked there on some summers as well, coordinating art projects. I can hear the boats’ foghorns from my apartment and feel the moisture in the wind.“