Kuvasto Puddles – A Stage for Rain Antti Keitilä Laajasalon peruskoulun pääkoulu (ent. Laajasalon yläaste ja lukio), Koulutanhua 1, 00840 Helsinki Indoor Sculpture Antti Keitilä’s (b. 1966, Naantali) Puddles – A Stage for Rain in Laajasalo Comprehensive School creates a place for observing events that involve rain, snow and ice. Two plates of aluminium are installed on the roof of the school, where small weather events are produced by the different states of water. The larger of the two plates has two depressions in it that mimic puddles: one is shallow and broad, the other deep and small. When the depressions fill up with rain, the water flows onto the smaller aluminium plate below, from which it cascades off the roof’s edge to the ground. In the winter, icicles form on the edge of the plate. In the wall of the second floor of the school is an observation hatch through which one can observe the rain from inside as it passes through its stages on the aluminium plates. The artist says: “The intangibility and partial concealment of the work is meant to preserve and pay tribute to the architecture of the school. The work is a hybrid between a fountain and a ridge turret.” The work was produced under the Percent for Art programme, and it belongs to the collection of the City of Helsinki, managed by HAM Helsinki Art Museum. At map