Communication 3
2024
Print on 80 g A4 print paper
12 pages
Thread stich in the upper left corner
Polar bear / isbjørn / jääkarhu / Ursus maritimus
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Image source: https://www.finn.no/reise/artikler/aktivitet/svalbard/reisetips-til-svalbard-isbjornens-rike(24.10.2024)
Saimaa ringed seal / Saimensel / Saimaannorppa / Pusa hispida saimensis
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Image credits: Kimmo Ohtonen, Laura Ohtonheimo
Dumbo octopus / Dumbo-blekksprut / Dumbo-mustekala / Grimpoteuthis
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Image credits: ROV-teamet / GoNorth
European mink / Europeisk mink / vesikko / Mustela lutreola
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Image credits: Tiit Maran
North Atlantic Right Whale / nordkaper / mustavalas / Eubalaena glacialis
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Image source: www.traum-urlaub-florida.de (24.10.2024)
European crayfish / edelkreps / jokirapu / Astacus astacus
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Image credits: Pekka Tuuri
Bubble-gum coral / sjøtre / koralli / Paragorgia arborea
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Image source: https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/elibrary-resources/legacy_files_migrated/8572-catalyst_18_2_340.pdf (24.10.2024)
Freshwater pearl mussel / jokihelmisimpukka ”raakku” / elvemusling / Margaritifera margaritifera
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Image credits: Panu Oulasvirta
Red king crab / kongekrabbe / kuningasrapu / Paralithodes camtschaticus
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Image credits: Erling Svensen / Havforskningsinstituttet
Pink salmon / pukkellaks / kyttyrälohi / Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
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Image credits: Panu Orell / Luonnonvarakeskus
Pacific oyster / Stillehavsøsters / Tyynenmerenosteri / Magallana gigas
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Image credits: Achim Wehrmann / Senckenberg Research Institute
Arctic fox / fjellrev / naali / Vulpes lagopus
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Image credits: Seppo Keränen
I’ve had a challenging autumn so far, feeling tired and stressed, having trouble in trusting myself, ending up having a small collapse in a form of a cold and trying to cure it by going for a family holiday that was an intense excursion of art and architecture where I was the tour guide. This is why, maybe, my excitement towards to collection assignment doesn’t fully show. But I love collecting, it’s a big part of my practice. I walk around to collect things to have material for my works because I don’t believe in buying more things so my works are defined by what material I can find. This week though I have been struggling with collecting as well. My collection is therefore a collection of pictures of animals from internet that I can’t stop thinking of. It all started when I decided to make a wall calendar to have something to sell at the KHiO Art and Craft Department’s Christmas market that I want to participate to support the event. ‘The end of the world calendar’ highlights 12 species of water and snow animals in Norway and Finland that are deeply affected by human actions. I will use the collection of the printed photographs for inspiration to make animal drawings for the calendar. In the calendar there are marked events related to the theme, such as Earth Overshoot Day. Despite of its gloomy name, the calendar speaks about a selection of things that can still be affected (, now!). For this purpose, I will create an Instagram account for the calendar to add more animals and things on the list, share knowledge and discuss.
There are around 3000 Polar bears in the Barents Sea area and Svalbard. They suffer from diminishing sea ice that they need for hunting.
Saimaa ringed seal is a seal that only lives in the lake Saimaa in eastern Finland. They are estimated to be 480. The main threats for the seal are fishing nets and global warming since the seal babies are born in snow nests.
Dumbo octopus lives in the deep seabed areas that Norway is planning on starting to mine.
European mink is extinct in Finland probably because American mink was brought to Europe by the fur industry and the escaped American minks took over European minks’ living areas.
North Atlantic Right Whales haven’t been seen in Norway anymore, only on the western side of the Atlantic, where it’s endangered with estimated 366 individuals. The population is small due to previous whaling industry and now they are threatened by ship traffic and fishing nets.
European crayfish suffer from water pollution and environmental toxins and crayfish plague that is spread by Signal crayfish from North America.
Bubble-gum coral lives in the deep seabed areas that Norway is planning on starting to mine.
Freshwater pearl mussel can live to be 200 years old. It’s very endangered species in Finland. In August there were big news about Stora Enso driving over a river with forestry machines. killing the mussels.
Red king crab is an alien species in Norwegian waters since for about 60 years. It migrates into spawning areas and eats both crayfish and capelin eggs.
Pink salmon is an invasive alien species. It can potentially harm the populations of native migratory fish species (salmon, trout) through competition and the spread of fish diseases. In larger numbers, pink salmon individuals dying in rivers may also have an impact on nutrient balances in rivers.
Pacific Oyster was imported in Norway in 1979 for farming. It is considered to be a very high ecological risk. It has an enormous reproductive potential, and it can potentially reduce the habitats of the native flat oysters and nussels.
Arctic fox is extremely endangered (in nature) in Finland because of previous hunting. In 2022 its nesting succeeded after 25 years. In Norway, Sweden and Finland together there are estimated to be 550 arctic foxes.