A site-specific work, 2003 – An Installation for Sound and Sea
In 2003, I created an installation in the wilderness of the municipality of Sotenäs, on the west coast of Sweden. I dismantled an old birdhouse found on an island on the Finnish west coast called Cross Base—an island where I grew up.
Like a migratory bird, I carried the parts of the birdhouse to the Swedish west coast. There, I wrote a story about a fisherman’s wife in the early 1950s who wanted to have a cross tattooed on her chest, dedicating her body to Christ. She and her husband lived in a small village near Sotenäs.
Sitting beside my sculpture on the edge of the cliff, one could look out over the endless sea and listen to the story through a small, solar-powered system with earphones.
Have listen… in swedish.