Niina Tervo: Undulate

I feel about my body using thought: my hands feel energetic, my stomach feels slightly nervous due to too much caffeine, and the feeling spreads to the legs. My mind is focused, trustful. It observes me and my surroundings. Light reflects in waves through the trees and colours my skin pale, yellowy bright, which has some blue tint in the shadows. The dark skin next to me reflects shades of purple and green. Maybe we could share the spectrum? We compliment each other.

It is the smallest particles that cause a wave motion in everything living. And in the inert. We sway about mostly empty within the universe. We move with electricity and think with electricity. Energy swirls through us or bounces off us into the ether as light, warmth, motion, sound – moving between atoms and matter. Those rays of light which are refracted off our skin perhaps start their journey back towards space. Others are absorbed into skin, warming and colouring. They morph as they become part of our surface, they vibrate those small particles and glow an invisible light. The brain crackles, we observe, we feel. Via emotions we connect to others or distance ourselves from them. The boundaries of the body and mind are open to question. The limbs stretch out here, in front of me, but there is much that one cannot see underlying everything and, therefore, one cannot even be so certain of oneself. The surface of the skin is porous. Things move into and out of us without our awareness or approval. We are a fertile ground and a concentration of energy. A stop-over for flowing energy.

Thank you: Emilia Niskasaari, Maija Luutonen, Ulla Tervo, Ville Mäkikoskela

The exhibition has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.