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- Kaarina Kaikkonen's Recycled Clothing LandscapeFinnish environmental artist <a title="Finnish Environmental Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen Makes Dreamlike Second Hand Landscapes" href="http://www.sculptors.fi/kuvanveistajat/kaikkonenkaarina/teoksia.htm" target="_blank">Kaarina Kaikkonen</a> creates ethereal, dreamlike landscapes from repurposed <a title="Finnish Environmental Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen Makes Dreamlike Second Hand Landscapes" href="http://inhabitat.com/new-catclo-laundry-additive-could-create-air-purifying-clothes-to-reduce-pollution/" target="_blank">clothes</a>. Her latest work, entitled ‘Are we still going on?’ was recently installaed at <a href="http://www.collezionemaramotti.org/it/Home-Page">Collezione Maramotti</a>, a former Max Mara factory that now houses contemporary art.1
- Kaarina Kaikkonen's Recycled Clothing Landscape<a title="Finnish Environmental Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen Makes Dreamlike Second Hand Landscapes" href="http://www.sculptors.fi/kuvanveistajat/kaikkonenkaarina/teoksia.htm" target="_blank">Kaarina Kaikkonen</a>'s huge site-specific installation contrasts with the <a title="Finnish Environmental Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen Makes Dreamlike Second Hand Landscapes" href="http://inhabitat.com/piet-hein-eeks-restaurant-in-eindhoven-is-filled-with-beautiful-upcycled-designs/" target="_blank">former factory’s</a> brutalist architecture.2
- Kaarina Kaikkonen's Recycled Clothing LandscapeIt consists of hundreds of second-hand shirts that together to create flowing forms.3
- Kaarina Kaikkonen's shirts landscapesThe garments, which seem to be holding hands, speak of the history of clothing production while creating a dialogue between the masculine and the feminine.4
- Kaarina Kaikkonen's shirts landscapesThe shirts have been neatly organized by color into a form resembling the interior hull.5
- Kaarina Kaikkonen's shirts landscapesThe garments' rhythmic repetition and past lives call to mind the fragility of human beings.6
- Kaarina Kaikkonen's shirts landscapesThe exhibition ‘Are We Still Going On?’ and other artworks at the <a title="Finnish Environmental Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen Makes Dreamlike Second Hand Landscapes" href="http://www.collezionemaramotti.org/it/Home-Page" target="_blank">Collezione Maramotti</a> can be seen until 21 April 2013, at Reggio Emilia, <a title="Finnish Environmental Artist Kaarina Kaikkonen Makes Dreamlike Second Hand Landscapes" href="http://inhabitat.com/abici-launches-ultraportable-update-to-historic-italian-velocino-bicycle/" target="_blank">Italy</a>.7