Can we save nature from humankind? Finnish artist Ilkka Halso’s unique images of his installations from the Museum of Nature, Restoration and Cube remind us that soon the only way we will be able to see healthy nature is in a museum.
By encasing trees in museums, rocks in scaffolding and creating spectacles out of trees, rocks and rivers, Ilkka Halso’s work also encourages a quiet reverence for a rapidly changing ecology.
He explains his work as stemming from, in part, a desire to protect nature from the threat of pollution and humankind. “I visualize shelters, massive buildings where big ecosystems could be stored at present. These massive buildings protect forests, lakes and rivers from pollution and, what is more important, from actions of man himself. At the same time I study different aspects of man’s relation to nature.”
Ilkka Halso’s past installations have included Manual for Insect Construction, Evolution, Cultural Landscape, Anatomical Cabinet, Excavations, Restoration, Cube, and Museum of Nature.
Visit: http://ilkka.halso.net
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And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot
- Joni Mitchell
written by Mark M. , July 17, 2009