Emotional Tower 2007

Placing Sense 2
A project where each artist
received an assignment about
a specific location www.kuten.net
Kuten Association with ID:I Gallery,
Stockholm curated by Juha van Ingen
in collaboration with Nao Saito

“Emotional Tower” is series of animated drawings of the architectural structure of a hunting tower. Through architectural metamorphosis, we express our changing emotions towards the hunting tower by imbibing its architecture with anthropomorphic character.

The story starts when we received the picture of the deer hunting tower for PS2.

That was the evening we visited Nina’s parents place in northern Finland, had elk meat dinner and listened to Nina’s dad’s hunting stories. The picture was so poetic. The fragile, tiny hunting tower was standing in solitude, leaning on the tree besides it and blended into the forest around. This simple, handmade construction represented for us the archaic way of hunting.

In the process of discovering the deer hunting world through listening to hunters’ stories and reading some texts, our emotions towards the hunting tower slowly started to change. We got to know the systematic, modern way of breeding and getting meat where hunters make deers come to the field every night by feeding them throughout the year. There are even hunting towers with heating, windows and television. Imagine a man in a cozy hunting tower waiting for the moment to shoot a deer from the window while watching his favourite program.