Tag: plant
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Eurajoen Lentävä Puutarha / The Flying Garden of Eurajoki
Voit liikuttaa ja suurentaa 3D mallia hiirellä. / You can move and zoom the 3D model with your mouse.
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Maisa in Copenhagen
Greetings from Denmark! We got a ride to Copenhagen from Sweden by two very lovely German travellers. Me and Maisa spent couple days in Copenhagen eating good food and cyyyyycling!! <3 Folkehuset Absalon soon became our favourite place to get good lunch.
The wind during cycling might’ve been too much for Maisa and couple of her leaves have lost a bit of colour and some pieces. Nevertheless, she’s still going strong! Maisa likes to tickle my calves with her long vines while I pedal and I think she’s a bit too brave with that. I hope she doesn’t get tangled but I guess it’s none of my business if she’s going for that adrenaline. We both fell in love with the brilliant cycling paths and culture in Copenhagen.
We thank our kind host Gabriella for the past days. It’s time to continue to the West coast, wohoo!
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Sonic fertilizer of empathy
I have seen house plants as a form of decoration. They bring colors, vibrancy and character into a space. I have never felt a deeper connection to a plant. It might be the reason, I have had trouble keeping my plants happy. I think I have finally grasped what it means to have a connection to a plant. Perhaps it’s a short of connection you would have with a domesticated animal. A feeling of care and empathy towards it. A feeling that maybe you even understand each other.
Musician and independent scientist Ben Jordan explores in his video essay if sound really affects plant growth. He goes briefly through the history of research and literature in this field and then conducts an experiment himself.
His approach is obsessive and curious, which I like. In his experiment he was rabbit holeing into every possible variable, but the video still manages to keep up a good and entertaining tempo. Jordan makes science about it and the evidence is super interesting, but I think it’s not so much about a trial on optimizing the growing of crops, but more about finding connections between us and plants. Oh plants apparently like to enjoy sound waves also!
Jordan is claiming that anthropomorphism (projecting our human feelings on other species) is a problem in science and I do agree in some sense, but is it necessary for creating empathy?
Inspired of this essay, I did a sonic journey with my tiny Scindapsus pictus (silver vine). I chose an album “Sisarusten toistuva uni” from a Pori based musician Juho Toivonen. (https://discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/album/sisarusten-toistuva-uni) I sat down on the floor, put the plant between me and the speakers and set the record on.
The album begins with a forest like atmosphere, where beautiful melodic tunes seduces you into a sensual and nostalgic trip. At some point you find a campfire and someone sitting on its side drumming. I lifted the plant and started to examine it closer. I gave it some water and held it on my lap. I felt the primitive bass tune resonating in my body. Like waves the music flowed through our matter and finally faded away.
– Uljas
ps. here’s the video I was talking about
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Ferry Snäckö – Skarpnåtö
We bicycled to Snäckö to catch a ferry yesterday. Thank you for the loveliest people at Lolo’s restauraunt for ice cream and helping out with a ferry ride to Skarpnåtö! <3 Me and my house plant Maisa were quite excited about continuing our travel on boat. Maisa got some nice throwbacks to her previous adventures on cargo, you know, when she moved to Finland.
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9.6.25. Maisan matka on alkanut kohti Tanskaa!
Heippa! Kuljetan huonekasvia nimeltään Maisa polkupyörällä Tanskaan. Ihmettelemme yhdessä matkustamisen riemua tämän olennon kanssa, joka yleensä viihtyy vain kotosalla, vaikka onkin taustaltaan jo syntyessään maailmanmatkaaja! Maisa on sekoitus kulta- ja hopeaköynnöstä, ja kulkee polkupyöräni juomapullotelineessä. Saavuimme eilisiltana Turkuun ja nyt olemme lauttamatkalla kohti Ahvenanmaata. Turussa Maisa pääsi tapaamaan isompia tovereitaan. Näin ensimmäisiksi huomioiksi, on hassua huomata, että huonekasvin kantaminen ympäriinsä tuntuu hyvin kummalliselta. Ei meitä ihmisiä taikka kasveja ole tällaiseen totutettu. Aurinkokannella Maisa on saanut muutamia katseita, mutta kukaan ei ole vielä kysynyt tarkemmin, minne saakka tämä pieni reippureissaaja meinaa mennä. Ravintolassa Maisa on pöydällä kuin kotonaan, sisustuselementin roolissaan, johon me ihmiset olemme huonekasvit työntäneet. Maisaa huvittaa erityisesti laivan disko!
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Kuormaliinahattu / Cargo strap hat
Ehdin viimein pyöritellä kuormaliinoja ja katsoa mitä niistä voisi syntyä. Tässä ensimmäinen testi.
I had finally time to test what I could do with the cargo straps. Here’s the first test.
Muotoilemalla löytyi hauska lettimäinen punonta. Hattu kuin kampaus! / This weaving was found by draping. Hat like a hairdo! 
Täytyy vielä testailla kuinka kasvi pysyy paikoillaan ja kuinka hattu pysyy päässä. Ja tietysti ommella kasaan.
I need to still test if the plant stays put and if the hat stays in my head. And yeah sew it together.
-Jönssi