Anonymous Tides


2026 - Ongoing
Public Installation for the Cultural Trail, Saari Residence, Kone Foundation


Anonymous Tides is a site-specific installation that uses the Saari Residence as a geological and temporal microcosm. While rooted in the local landscape, the project transcends its immediate geography to explore universal themes of ecological impermanence and the fluidity of time. The Saari landscape itself, defined by its historical transition from a sea-bound island to a terrestrial forest, and its potential return to the water, serves as a poignant stage for a broader meditation on the "becoming" of the Earth. 

Through the act of touching an NFC-embedded marker, visitors connect to a "Sonic Palimpsest" that layers the artist’s vocal chants of Virginia Woolf’s recomposed texts reflecting on the shifting time and ecology, with the visitors' added-on environmental field recordings over time. The project invites us to perceive the land as a living, breathing entity in a constant state of flux. It is a study of the "Anonymous", the vast, non-human rhythms that govern our existence long before we arrive and long after we depart.



Tide 1.0, Feb, 2026, Winter




Record a soundscape at Saari, and upload it here



Curated and Woven Texts by Virginia Woolf (chanted in the video)


"The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually."

- The Waves (1931)



"So with the lamps out and the windows open, the nights arrived. Variations of interruptions would derive from the season. Then the wind would blow; then the poppy seed would shed and the carnation wither; then the night and day, like a series of immense grey nets, be thrown over things."

- To the Lighthouse (1927), from the "Time Passes" section.





"I want to be like a log in the water, feeling the flow, without a name, without a will."

- The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924 (Published 1978; written in 1920)





"In every moment, there is a whole... even though it is unstable, even though it is vanishing."
 
- To the Lighthouse (1927), from "The Window" section.