Sápmi perceptions
At the end of 2015 I travel to northern Europe to the Barents sea. The main goal for me was to experience the Polar night and Aurora Borealis. During the expedition I got to know about Lapps community and I was invited to live some days with a Sami family. That experience reflected on some of my later works and gave me some new understanding, knowledge and respect for Laplanders traditions, history and actual context of this indigenous Finno-Ugric people.
_Sámi drums series
2016 / Private Collection
Sámi ceremonial drums have two chiefly two variations, both oval-shaped: a bowl drum in which the drumhead is strapped over a burl, and a frame drum in which the drumhead stretches over a thin ring of bentwood. The drumhead is fashioned from reindeer hide.
The patterns on the drum membrane reflect the worldview of the owner and his family, both in religious and worldly matters, such as reindeer herding, hunting, householding as well as relations to their neighbours and to the non-Sámi community.
_Dimensions
Height / 210 mm
Width / 148 mm
_Medium
Watercolor, Coffee and Black ink
Paper 210gr
_Sámi Bear symbol
2017 / Private Collection
_Dimensions
Height / 210 mm
Width / 148 mm
_Medium
Acrilyc
Black cardboard
