Years of paper

The project focuses on Kohila's heritage.
After decades of daily use, a landscape holds many traces of its physical and immaterial past: marks on land, architecture, holes, waste, rust, things left behind by the rush of time, but also memories related to them.
The intervention involves recollections of the landscape and its humanization: artificial artefacts, land use and daily work. Being the paper factory, an essential symbol of Kohila's economy, society and everyday life, local people re-enact this heritage through the project. Industrial buildings speak to us through the memories we associate with them: an open dialogue between the things, the place of making and the consumers.
The primary material for this project is wasted paper. In its place of production, paper carries several layers of meaning: it has social, economic and political aspects. Wasted paper metaphorically replaces the brand-new paper once made in the factory, allowing for a conceptual bridge to the past.