I started to think about why connecting with nature is so important to me. Remembering my childhood, I realized that all the knowledge about nature came from my grandparents. Mostly things about mushrooms, berries, trees and other things from nature I learned when I was spending my summers with them. Communication between grandparents and grandchildren is a kind of sharing of experience. Grandparents can reinforce a sense of tradition or history, give advice, provide support and grandchildren can give grandparents a sense of the present and new technologies, as well as an opportunity to be together. So at this point, I wanted to work with young and old generation differences that could be transferred to the gloves project. Finding the ways to represent and show our differences and connections at some point. Bioplastic with tomato peels represents younger generation (personal childhood tomato story, as a child I used to like and eat tomatoes very often). Transparent bioplastic representing older generation that already given all of their advices to younger generation. Giving everything what is the best for younger generation.
Photographer: Kristjan Madalvee.
Materials used in the project.
