When I think about real action, first things that come to my mind are all archaic manly things, like hunting, fishing or woodchopping. If I think about the subject any further, I realize that this sort of activities do not have any real meaning in the life we live today.
Average finn feels most real when spending the summer vacation chopping wood for the electrically heated summercabin and dipping TV-shop lures in the lake. Rest of the year is spent feeling unreal in the technological rat race.
We live inside technological rat race, so why do we search the realness from such distances?
Why is chopping wood more real than updating computers? Is it biological, are our brains just constructed this way? Is it species-specific behavior, or have we just spoiled ourselves with culture that emphasizes archaic heroic myths?
Well we do not know, we just started our journey. We will do our best to answerr these questions soon, or possibly just produce more questions.
But about the photos: In the left photo there are Anna and Rakel printing posters old fachioned way for an exhibition we did back in 2000. In the right photo there are Rakel and Anna, year 2008, studying postmodern representations of fishing.
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