Aura Latva-somppi, keramiikka, taide, työt

glass, 2020

Nuutajärven lasikylässä kesällä 2020 toteutettu kouluprojekti seurailee tehtävänantoa Terroir/Locality. Pintti yhdistelee entisen lasitehtaan ympäristöstä löydetyt jätelasin (pintti) ja uuden lasimassan aiheuttaen jännitteisiä ja räsähdysalttiita juomalaseja. Puhaltajina Nuutajärven lasikoulun opiskelijat Teemu Kylvö, Kaisa Reponen, Jenni Sorsa, Penna Tornberg, Nooa Hietaniemi, Toivo Molin ja Antti Kuikka.

I combined handpicked pieces of residue glass (fin. "pintti") from Nuutajärvi glass village area, disposed there over centuries in forests, riversides and fields. They are handblown together with the current glass mass with glassblowing students Teemu Kylvö, Kaisa Reponen, Jenni Sorsa, Penna Tornberg, Nooa Hietaniemi, Toivo Molin and Antti Kuikka. Since the new glass mass and the old glass mass are different, they create tension ('jännitys'), that makes the pieces actively vulnerable for sudden breakage or explosion. When looked through a polariscope the tension is visible in rainbow colors. While the glasses are shaped as utility articles, they are too risky to be used. This provokes conversation around the boundaries between arts and design. For me the project was about engaging with the tradition of glass-blowing, the locality of Nuutajärvi – geologically and historically– and provoking conversation on social aspects such as post-humanism and anthroposcene. As a human, especially when working on a craft with such strong connotations to history, one has to observe the tension between the past and now — whether it causes a crack or a rainbow hue.