© Image: Kuvasto The Traveller Pertti Kukkonen Vuoniityn peruskoulun ala-aste, Venemestarintie 4, 00980 Helsinki Indoor Sculpture The backstory of Pertti Kukkonen’s (b. 1954, Hämeenlinna) installation is the idea that humans originally came from the stars. The two-part installation consists of concrete patterns on the floor and a wall relief made of plywood. The plywood board is tinted blue and red and has 60,000 holes drilled in it. The holes create pale patterns in the plywood that resemble nebulae, or swirling space dust, which create a sense of movement. The relief is five metres tall and seven metres wide. The concrete floor is tinted with black pigment and treated to appear bluish. Lines and round patterns in paler concrete are inserted into the dark surface, along with the engraved names of stars and their distances from Earth. Together, the inserts and engravings create the shape of the constellation Orion. 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