Lumensanakirja, reserach, 2009–ongoing.

Lumensanakirja is an anthropological-photographic research that collects finnish names, words and images used to describe snow and ice conditions. It explores the evolution of society and climate through language, highlighting discoveries and technologic progress, temperature rise and consequently variations on water, snow and ice. The work is focused in a local panorama but analyse the global changes in climate and relations in natural system.
Lumensanarirja is a research, a collection, a display, a diary, an archive, a device for knowledge and relations.

Lumensanakirja started in January 2009 and it has been developed with different system:
*A field research (2009>2012) in different areas of Finland, especially in Lahti, Rauma, Kemijärvi, Sodankylä and Helsinki, to collect the words, translate them and capture the images.
*A virtual contact with the people of the different communities working on the blog ( http://lumensanakirja.blogspot.com).
*Communication in local newspaper, art pubblication, mediatic and social movement.

The collection is now reaching 497 words and pictures, from current language to different dialects and obsolete terms. Photos are future memories of past changes.

Snow and ice are ephemeral.
They come shifting the limits of our perception, drawing new borders, spaces, routes, cling, and pile and finally melt.
The water then is not only thing but becomes a place.