Skatan, 2024 (Tufted)
Skatan, 2024 (Tufted)
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A handmade tufted art piece featuring a dessert motif, crafted by Finnish artist Heidi Linsén.
Tufted wool and acrylic yarn
63x48x3 cm
The scary vision of the future today made me think about the attitude of different generations
towards the future, hope and change.
In the 1970s, Finland was undergoing a major social upheaval, urbanization, the promise of fresh suburbs, hundreds of thousands moving to Sweden in search of a better life, increased employment of women, humanizing laws and an internationalizing cuisine. Koskenkorva's sales records are also in this decade, just like my birth. So a lot of promise. In my mind, I imagine Åsa-Ulrika, who has just moved to Hagalund with her husband, listening to the radio, leaning on her hands as she stares at the suburban life through the folds of her kappa curtains, and hopes that the canned peach jelly will come out of its pan without breaking this time, sucks the last smokes from her cigarette and fixes her hairdo.
On the other hand, kitchenettes thick of cigarette smoke, heavy knockers, thin bread, living that rough life. Jelly dishes saved the meal of many poor families, they are an amazing eye-turning trick. How little could be created with the help of gelatin and mold to create something festive, flamboyant, and for a moment believe again that life will carry. It was this fragile feeling of happiness, an almost desperate faith in tomorrow that inspired these works.
