TALVI TARINA 2004
Site-specific installation, led-light display, fluorescent light
PIMEÄ, Public Art festival in Kallio, Helsinki
Text on a led-light display in front of a tram stop in Kallio, Helsinki.
The festival took place from the end of November untill the middle of December 2004. The text was in Finnish, duration 4 min.
......... seison täs ikkunan edes.................on kylmä...................oon seissy jo jonkin aikaa ..................................................................lunta sato aiaka rankasti..............kello tuli lähemmäks neljää.........ihmisii oli paljon liikentees....................................................tuol ratikkapysäkil...
tostoiselpuoleltietä..........makas joku tyyppi.............siin roskiksen vieres........................se oli ihan liikkumatta ja luminen........... .......................................................................menin sen luo.......... ........................................................................................taputin olkapäälle ja kysyin......voiks mä auttaa..........emmäymmärtänny mitä se vastas.............ajattelin et mies pitää saada ylös hangest........................................................................mä nostin.........................................................se kaatu saman tie...................................me päästiin lopulta siihen pysäkinpenkill
............mihin se sit istu alas...........................sen kädet oli aika turvonnu..................................sil ei ollu hanskoi......................kelasin et mä voisin antaa sille mun omat hanskat.............................siin samall se sit kiitteli ja toivotti hyvää jouluu.....................mä olin kans et hyvää
jouluu........................mut sit jostainsyyst mä vaan pidin hanskani ja lähin menee...................
The english title is Fairytale of Helsinki Street.
Here is a rough translation of the text on the display,
..standing in front of this window....................it’s cold......been standing here for awhile.................................................................the snow fell heavily ....................................it was almost four o’clock....there were quite a lot of people on the street...............on the tram stop...on the other side of the street...was a guy lying.....just next to that garbage can......................e was snowy and
didn’t move at all...............................................I went over to him......................... ...........................................................................tapped him on the shoulder and asked..can I help….I didn’t understand what he replied......I thought that I have to get him up from the snow...................................I lifted........................... ...................he fell straight away.......................... ............eventually we reached the tram stop bench, where he then sat down...............his hands were swollen...............he didn’t have any gloves.............I was thinking that I could give him my own gloves........at the same time he was thanking me and wishing me merry Christmas.......I was also like merry Christmas too...................but then for some reason I just kept my gloves and left.................................