Notebook

Quiet spaces

Domains or platforms on the internet have different cultures. As an artist, I would like to envoke a sense of wonder and curiosity in the other. I am still inexperienced with much to learn, but my work has more than once been set in quiet places, found only by those who where looking for it or who by unusual chance came upon it. I know that I would have been uncomfortable publishing them in a busy street in the centre of town, and similarily I am also uncomfortable publishing in one of the internets busy streets like instagram or even worse, facebook. In these busy streets everything is controlled, everything is manipulated, commercialized and profited upon. The audience represents the majority, and as a female, queer, indigenous person I must admit that I do not feel safe with the majority of people. My social anxiety is naturally also present in the digital landscape.

I create in quiet places. I am happy when I envoke a sense of curiosity and intimacy, and I would rather be heard by a select and forever anonymous few who truly listened, than a great mass who passed by in a rush - even if they left a thousand likes soon forgotten.

My love for certain digital spaces coexists with my contempt of others, and I wonder what the essence of this coexistance is. Firstly, one must accept that digital space gathers its energy in the natural world. It stems from waterfalls, a strong wind or fire. As a child, I saw the internet as a new dimension, the computer as a portal, but I know now that just like all other architecture, it is created out of Luondu - the natural world, the environment, the mind - like all creations. Understanding that we need more frugality in the digital space, that it cannot grow forever because it consumes nature means that one should be critical of digital spaces and some branches must be cut. However, if it is left up to the government of current age, they will prioritize the massive and ethically disturbing spaces. It will be the death of small houses such as this site. By the same logic, many have been turned down by the state when applying to build a small cabin in the forest, while others were approved in building hundreds of cabins in the same place. Money rules in the culture of the majority.