“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
-H.D. Thoreau
As a child I often looked at the stars. Against the dark there were all those bright spots blinking. As the minutes passed by more stars became visible, some smaller, some larger. I was overwhelmed by the simplicity of that beauty. But I still have the same question in my head. Do the stars look the same on the other side of the world?
Looking directly into light. How that perception changes, often the fact in tradition of James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson, I try to use myself as the tool of the reflection by the use of my memory. My act is to focus on what I look at and how I percieve it.
Making images is like working with visual timeline. This timeline creates a personal diary where all the words are substituted by images from the moments when the beauty is percieved. Memories are drawn in time by light.
Mikko Sinervo
EXHIBITION
New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School
January 24 – April 2013
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, 38th Street
New York NY 10016
USA
