Log

Our last week at the Öres residency was dedicated to creating and working on the signs of destruction, formalized as the Whirl language. I.C.W.D has been searching for ways to interpret and to communicate the comforting signals we identified lurking in the islet surfaces. Whirl is a marking system which enables us to leave traces […]

This week we headed to islets east of Örö which we could not reach by swimming. We speculate that the islands name Örö comes from öra which means ear in Swedish (and ö for island), but after using our ears we turned to maps for navigation. Many of our islets are barren, the sea has […]

Our second week at Öres has been spent exploring the island, interviewing its inhabitats and mapping out resources. The preliminary idea of learning about island culture and local adaptation techniques is a challenge, as the oldest Örö habitats moved in only seven years ago. Before this the island served as a military base and its […]

On the first week at the Öres residency at the Finnish archipelago, we (I.C.W.D) visited islets by “islet hopping”. Islet hopping is our travel method of the week. We swam to nearby islets, passed them over by foot and continued further to the sea to reach islets which would have been hard to swim to […]