Hembygdsfönster gick hem/ Ending Hembygdsfönster

                                                                         Hembygdsfönster/Kotiseutuikkuna/Districtwindow

                                                                                      A project by Twotoo - Kaksinainen

                                                                                                  From May to June

                                                                                   Svenska Kulturfonden  and Pargas Stad

Kesä on jo puolessa välissä. On aika purkaa Kotiseutuikkunan viimeiset paikat. Lenholmin ikkuna oli paikalla koko projektin ajan. Kun veimme ikkunan paikalle Mikan kanssa oli ihana toukokuinen sää ja nytkin, purkupäivänä, sää oli mitä parhain.

Det är lite som att säga farväl till sommaren.
Men nej, Lenholm är vackert året runt, här kommer vi tillbaka många gånger.

Risto carries the blue window. We wondered how many had seen it, how many had stopped and watched through it and taught that this is why I came here, for this beautiful seanory. Or maybe to listen the birds. Or maybe just to be.....

Genom Föreningshuset ser man till gästhamnen och stenlagd text PARGAS, som också är en sätt att göra staden vackrare. Man saknar själva huset och alla aktiviteter där. Platsen är tom utan huset. Snart glömmer man det helt och hållet. Kommer andra platserna andra aktiviteter.

Kiitos kaikille, jotka ottivat osaa Kotiseutikkunaan joko valitsemalla itselleen tärkeän paikan tai kommentoimalla itse projektia. Olemme nyt paljon tietoisempia Paraisten historiasta mutta myös  asioista, jotka juuri nyt ovat ajankohtaisia ja tärkeitä. Kaupunki avautui aivan uudella tavalla, kun sitä katsoi toisen ihmisen näkökulmasta. Tack för alla som var med oss och valde viktiga platser för alla andra att see och märka. We hope that these windows will be open in peoples minds when ever they look at their city with new and open mind, and who knows maybe we continue our District window projekt alos in coming years, maybe in some other form, but still opening discussions between people.

It is time to take the windows back to home. 

Hembygdsfönster gick hem/ Ending Hembygdsfönster

                                                                         Hembygdsfönster/Kotiseutuikkuna/Districtwindow

                                                                                      A project by Twotoo - Kaksinainen

                                                                                                  From May to June

                                                                                   Svenska Kulturfonden  and Pargas Stad

                                                                       

(c)Twotoo - Kaksinainen 2015

...and finally the windows have been taken away from their last places...

As a matter of sunny and rainy summer weather some had ”grown” into the place. They had ”been settled” into space, as if they certainly belong there.

And that is exactly how it goes: we people get used to the surroundings we live in. Things are accepted and meanings of objects might be absorbed by ”automatic perspective”. After a while, we tend to not see what we see. Now and then there could be a little ”why?”. ”Why is that there?” ”Who put it?” ”How did it occur?”

Even the windowframes started to become objects, that were meant to be there. In the last 8 weeks, many people might have walked by the one or the other, in the end even people might have thought the windows to be a part of the Pargas sight.

OR NOT. Some thoughts might have poppep up again and again. As if the windowframes were the ongoing reminders for told stories or shared perspectives.

That is the democratic way of living, too. To decide whether to make up ones mind about something, that means: to take in the impuls from outside , or not.

Now, after the Districtwindows have been taken ”home” to the artists yard, the places where they were standing have changed. They contain of a lot more stories and ideas. They implement opinions and critics. They seem to be more alive. Thanks to the people who shared their perspectives with the public.

It is a present given to a community. The more people open up their thinking to friends and folks, the more deeper and bigger a district, a community is growing towards all dimensions.

The windowframes left, the open minds hopefully stay.