Pyhäluoto
(pyhä means sacred, luoto means skerry)
Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
See location here: Coordiantes 64°28'22.5"N 24°11'44.9"E
The coast in Pyhäjoki (sacred river) is part of land upthrust area of the northern part of the Baltic sea, where the land continues to rise from the sea 8-9 millimeters per year. The coast with many sand and rock shores changes soon into a forest. The sea shore area, scarcely populated and in the Finnish countryside, is full of birds and wildlife and is very popular recreation and cottage zone.
In year 2015 one of the closeby endangered nature protection area, Hanhikivi cape, was turned into a industrial area, which is planned for a Finnish-Russian nuclear plant. Before that, it was looking as idyllic place as the Pyhäluoto - the sky seems to bend differently. Pyhäluoto reminds me of the lost place. I also chose it because I saw a special swan there, the rock formations and because it is called "sacred". The spot with rock islets and sand is also a public swimming place, but the waters are warm later in the summer so there are only cottage owners that drive by in spring and winter.
Útesita
Sand whale
When I sat on the rock for a while, the sand seemed to me as a creature of its own, something of which I only saw a little part of, a side, a hip of an enourmous whale-like form. But enough to see it was living, and it was maybe not the first time I saw the sand as a living thing, something that had a rythm, breathing of its own. Maybe as I child I had thought of the sand of this sea like that, but only with imagenation. I think now that this is also the entity of movement, opposite of suppressed and prisoned. A land rising for a long time, gradually after ice age and movement in smaller and smaller the grains of sand, in the rythms of the sea and other engaged waves.
Swans
There were two swans, a couple. The other one was killed or just died, they try to find out why. When you lose someone, you are left with the actions, impressions: they draw a silhuet, visible between the day truth and the night truth.
