24 hours in the life of a Helsinki suburb, in the dark/light of winter.
The work is a spatiotemporal portrayal of the North's life and light in its most characteristic, winter.
A "sociographic" investigation, the work captures and retells the twenty-four hours of a January Sunday's Helsinki suburb, using spatiotemporal imaging techniques.
The day's length sees a dramatic inversion during winter, to short and dark. How life is revealed visually, also sees a reversal. Light bouncing off people not so much reveals them, as does their consumption of it. The lightswitch signals life and sleep.
The winter light inversion introduces another paradox, the year's strongest and sharpest light, characteristic of the North. Winter's light is the most saturated paint of the North's nature nostalgia, spirits, melancholy and intensity.
The work, a continuation of the Longlapses series of "sociographic" renderings of society, using spatiotemporal imaging techinques. Whereas a "normal" timelapse movie shows complete instant after complete instant, until the whole time period is retold, spatioteporal imaging retells the whole time period differently dispersed through the motif's surface, frame after frame, until time has "travelled" through its complete area.