Tampere railway station, the city centre has risen nine metres of the worm. Johanna Lonka has designed a temporary work of art of construction site waste.

the name of the Work is the Country editor, and it is part of the Tampere tram construction site-early art.

the Purpose is to make everyday life around the extensive site of the human ‘ and aesthetically pleasing highly. The tram began to run in Tampere in 2021.

Longan piece comes passers-by and came to the city against the railway station’s main entrance next to a construction site fence on the site. Crawling worm-like character is crafted from the site of the accumulated packaging waste, protection masks, as well as drainage pipes.

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the Color selection by the artist according to the available material conditions. The worm also illustrates the turmoil and change, where urban space to live and develop.

– waste materials, sculpting was a natural approach to temporary arts projects and packaging waste is abundantly available construction projects along the way. Plastic processing has become familiar from the earlier process of my, so this work was born to try the craft method, sew and overlap, leaving the songs to each other, Lonka said in the announcement.

Longan according to human and animal parallel life is a recurring subject of his work.

– Turmoil of the city in everyday life facing all its inhabitants, Lonka said.

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