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THE SECOND ELK Kimmo Ojaniemi's Work of Light Art, in Huittinen, Finland 2000 In autumn of 1998 the leading person of the Streetgallery organisation of Huittinen, Hannu Aaltonen asked me to make a plan for a permanent environmental work of art to place in center the area of Huittinen. Huittinen is a small but bustling and independent town in southern Finland, about in the middle of the Helsinki - Turku - Tampere-triangle. Almost all I knew about the town was "Huittinen's Elk Head" called ancient hammer. So I had to beguin to learn more about the location. I visited Huittinen several times, trying to understand the nature of the people and the environment. In the beginning I tried to avoid the elk motif as maybe too trivial but after some months I realised that it is a fabulous symbol of developement of the area. Also the approaching new millenium forced me to thoughts about the Second Elk; Frankly the temptation to have a post on the same continuity with the artist who made the mythical first elk's head almost 7000 years ago was very heavy reason for me to make an decision to create The Second Elk The Second Elk is 10 meter high and it's "wingspan" is 5 meter. I hope the images below tells the rest of the story. |
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The first sketch. |
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A sample of tens of the sketches. |
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The site of The Second Elk. |
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The site of The Second Elk. |
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The site of The Second Elk. |
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29.11.1999 |
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29.12.1999 late evening. The light tubes can be seen too clearly. The blue is too transparent; Someone must drive 180 km to Helsinki to buy opal film to add on the plex glass. |
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30.12.1999 |
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30.12.1999 at 11 p.m. |
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The Second Elk was comleted on the last day of the century and ceremoniously unveiled on the 1st of January 2000 at 00.00 a.m. |
