I spent in Kilpisjärvi the first week of January, during which the sun never climbed over the horizon. During the periods of light I scouted the area for possible locations and I left early in the evenings to await the arrival of the Aurora Borealis. Most of the time I was moving on skis on the frozen lake as the path up Saana was filled with ice and particularly dangerous in the darkness.
Of the six nights spent there, there were auroras on five of them, two of which were cloudy, which is an unbelievably good average. Particularly the last night I was able to climb Jehkas fell on a snowmobile and get an unrestricted view of Northern Lights in a bright and clear sky.
The infrastructure, location and local help provided by the residency allowed me to develop my work even further than I had envisaged when I applied and moved my project from the state of research and pre production to the production stage.
My residency was tied to a project under development in which I research the planetarium as a system of representation.
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