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Sun Ray Hunter

YÖ gallery in Helsinki / The gloomiest month of the year in Finland / October 2022

 

NOTE! Check at the bottom of the page the geaograpfic coordinates. This is where your piece of sun is coming from and where it will take you!

 

 

Hello in October!

Is it possible to capture midnight sunbeams to your pocket, storage them over the summer – and finally, release and share them with the world when the autumn hits the darkest? THE SUN RAY HUNTER can – and that's me, printmaking artist Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki, with everlasting quest to harness centuries old low-tech to the service of the smile!

THE SUN RAY HUNTER is a project of building a solar inventory – a record of the sun traces collected from different countries – by using one of the earliest processes known in the history of printmaking: the cyanotype method, commonly known as the sun printing.

In the period of six months, I have visited fifteen different places in eleven countries. I travelled through the peaks of Lapland to the warm rocky coasts of Croatia, from the long highways of Germany and the green hills of Belgium to the whiteheads on the coastline Bornholm. Thanks to the cyanotype, I have managed to collect and bring back to Helsinki sun beams captured only on a small piece of paper. I checked how the sun looks and reacts in different places. Each paper is an accurate record of the moment and the weather conditions preserving the time I was there.

Now, when we miss the light the most, I want to share these files with you!

On October 15th come and visit the YÖ gallery, Lönnrotinkatu 33 (HKI) and treat yourself with a piece of sun. Take it with you and save it in your pocket. Use it always when you need an extra load of light.

This project is an experiment and an attempt to save for a longer time what is intangible. Through the form of shearing I want to evoke a strong feeling of connection and coexistence-meeting to which I want to invite you.

 

(This project is supported by TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre Finland)

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GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES

 

N 60⁰09’37.2024” E 25⁰02’50.2152” N 60⁰09’37.2024” E 25⁰02’50.2152”
N 60⁰09’45.8676” E 25⁰02’25.9044” N 60⁰09’45.8676” E 25⁰02’25.9044”
N 55⁰18’51.9732” E 14⁰33’11.0736” N 55⁰18’51.9732” E 14⁰33’11.0736”
N 57⁰55’07.338” E 22⁰01’57.4716” N 57⁰55’07.338” E 22⁰01’57.4716”
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N 49⁰36’37.1988” E 6⁰11’21.3756” N 49⁰36’37.1988” E 6⁰11’21.3756”
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N 53⁰10’15.654” E 18⁰09’22.6764” N 53⁰10’15.654” E 18⁰09’22.6764”
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N 60⁰11’06.2736” E 25⁰04’41.2356” N 60⁰11’06.2736” E 25⁰04’41.2356”
N 49⁰06’26.676” E 6⁰10’48.5832” N 49⁰06’26.676” E 6⁰10’48.5832”