Shadow of a Pine – Remix, Video 4k 19 min 15 sec.
Shown in the exhibition Artists’ Island on Harakka Island 10-28. September 2025.
 
In spring 2024 I returned to a pine tree growing on the western shore of Harakka Island – I had performed as the shadow of that tree weekly in the year of the dog 2006-2007 – and repeated for the camera what I remembered of my performance. Now I inserted the old video work Shadow of a Pine I-IV into this new material.
The old video work is part of the series Animal Years (2003-2014), performances for camera filmed for twelve years on Harakka Island and named after the Chinese calendar. The performances were repeated for a year about once a week in the same place, with the same framing of the image, with the video camera on a tripod.
Since 2023 one can get acquainted with one work from each year of the series on Harakka Island. On twelve filming locations there are aluminum signs with QR codes, which link to a video work online filmed on that site. Shadow of a Pine, however, is not part of that selection but can be viewed only here.