About Remembering, Forgetting, and Paradise

For years I worked in my paintings with elements that have journeyed through the Western Collectine Consciousness for at least two thousand years.

And then, I realized that I myself am rather forgetful person - and I started to figure the experience of forgetting and remembering, the ghostlike memory of things slowly returning to the consciousness.

In to the idea of remembering there is a strong connection to the longing for Paradise - this ideal which is out there, somewhere. In my new videos I have tried to create Paradise-like experiences.

Regards
Merja Heino

- photos 2006-08