Tea Mäkipää

RECYCLED

5 abandonned gravestones with newly engraved names

Place: Park in front of medical center, Karl-Friedrich-Str. 1 (former graveyard)

The world population is rising with about 250 000 persons per day. This is why the rental contracts for the final resting places are limited, normally up to 25 years per customer. Grave stones and monuments are still designed to last thousands of years, and are normally crushed into gravel after single use. In order to save natural resources, human effort and to protect landscapes, the same grave stones could be used by many customers over. The newest names and dates on the recycled stones are based on the globally most common names and the largest generations in, and reflect the statistic average life expectancies

Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää creates installations in public space, as well as photographs and videos. Her works are inspired by admiration of nature, human co-existence with animals and modern life style with its problems, such as global warming and contraction of biodiversity.

www.tea-makipaa.eu