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Santtu Laine 8.-13.8.2024

Santtu Laine 8.-13.8.2024

My trip started in Turku, where I took a two-hour ferry to Seili Island. This provided a smooth start to the upcoming Godzilla trip and the adventures ahead. On the ferry, I also met Rachael Allain, a co-artist from the UK who was also taking part in the Godzilla project. At Seili, we participated in Herring Day, co-organized by the Archipelago Research Institute and CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago. During the event, we learned about the extensive research on herrings that…

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Aga Pokrywka 24.-30.7.2024

Aga Pokrywka 24.-30.7.2024

The first scientific illustration of prehistoric times was painted 2 centuries ago. This watercolor represents an aquarium-like view of an epic battle between different dinosaur-like marine species living 200 millions years ago. Looking at it gives you an impression that competition and Jurassic Park aesthetics are inherent features of planet Earth. But dinosaurs were not the first creatures inhabiting our planet. Much earlier, there were cyanobacteria, the inventors of photosynthesis. They kick-started life on Earth and filled the atmosphere with…

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Sasha Rotts (SASHAPASHA) 25.7.2024

Sasha Rotts (SASHAPASHA) 25.7.2024

When I was little, we had a book called ‘Masterpieces of Russian Painting’, which I loved to look through. On our first day on the boat, when we went out to the open sea, I couldn’t understand for a long time what this situation, which was so new to me, reminded me of. And then I realised that I was inside a painting. A painting from my childhood, from that very book. It was called ‘In the Blue Expanse’, and…

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Pavel Rotts (SASHAPASHA) 26.7.2024

Pavel Rotts (SASHAPASHA) 26.7.2024

Godzilla I was always afraid of water. Sometimes I have nightmares about drowning. In this repetitive dream, I’m trying to stay on the surface, floating on something not meant for water, such as a sledge. The sledge is drowning, and I see how it disappears in the darkness. I am afraid of sharks. This fear is absurd, as I fear them even in the lake or river. It is rather an abstract fear of something unknown and wild in the…

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Notes from Nida/Preila/Klaipeida

Notes from Nida/Preila/Klaipeida

July 2 – July 6 Helsinki-Tallinn by ferry, Tallinn-Riga by bus, one night in a hostel, Riga-Klaipeda by bus and Klaipeda-Nida by bus. I finally arrive in Nida and step into Godzilla, my home for the next 6 weeks. Andy and Merja had already arrived here a few days before, they had had a 60-hour open water sailing (also through a rough storm!) from Örö to Klaipeda, and then from Klaipeda to Nida. Nida is a Lithuanian small town uniquely…

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Gary Markle 10.7.2024

Gary Markle 10.7.2024

Random thoughts from the journey so far “This too will pass” An ancient saying that helps with seasickness and hours of sailing as a passenger in the dark and rolling Baltic Sea. After this journey lasting over a few days and nights I’m thinking about things with a different focus, things like peeing, pooing and vomiting. But also more abstract things like space to move about, to sleep to make food… We (humans) don’t own things anymore than they own…

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Notes from Örö

Notes from Örö

All through our stay in Örö the weather was lovely and the water was quite clear still, there was not yet any blue-green algea vegetation taking over. Bladder wrack was thriving. We went treasure hunting with artist Anna Pekkala around the beaches of Örö. We picked up a lot of trash and while searching for seal bones, Anna shared with me interesting thoughts about how us humans are the worst predators of all and the rest of them are just…

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Anna Pekkala 27.6.2024

Anna Pekkala 27.6.2024

I lie on a rock and gradually realize I am on the ants’ path. Three different spiders visit my towel. They climb over me, tickle, and bother me. A green shiny beetle is perched in the middle of the towel when I return from a bush pee. I am in their way. The sun is burning hot. Blue-green algae have already been detected in the capital region, the warm early summer hastened its development. Thanks to Godzilla, I have spent…

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