VISUAL ARTISTS Kati Rapia and Ilona Valkonen have been collecting trash from the coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea since 2017 and used it in their anarchofloristic Vieno Motors performances. The collected trash makes a crown for today’s people – a clear note of the trashy state of the world.

This photograph series shows today’s people wearing those trash crowns. Living in the middle of a self-made junkyard the trash that is filling our Seas is our very close, very culturally owned, very obvious material. Next to these esthetical, ‘folkfloristical’ photos is a photo of the same trash crown, now looking like trash – or an abstract painting. Do we want our time to be made of plastic bottles, plastic ropes, and other rubbish? Making these Crowns at least that amount of trash is out of the sea.

FINE ARTISTS Kati Rapia and Ilona Valkonen have been collecting debris from the North Sea and Baltic coasts since 2017 and used it in their anarchophloristic Vieno Motors performances. The material collected has been crowned for today’s people, which aptly reflects the state of our littering world.

In this series of photos, people carry these trash cans. We live in a scrap yard we build ourselves, where the waste that fills our Seas is a material very close to us, culturally familiar and obvious.

Alongside the Aesthetic, folklore images, a picture of the same crown is seen, in which it looks like a rubbish or an abstract painting. Do we really want our time to be built on plastic bottles, plastic ropes and other rubbish? At least the used debris from these Crowns is now out of the sea.