HUOLI

HUOLI, the Finnish (Suomi) word for “worry”, was born out of a mutual focus on churches and their architecture which offer a nexus for a larger nostalgic reflection and malaise that Zachary and Kelsey both align with. HUOLI consists of six 24” x 35.75” framed print artworks, three from each artist and one collaborative piece.

The content of the exhibition is varied: Knuttila's lithograph prints are a three-image series of a rural Saskatchewan church continually warping and distorting through the series. Ford's screen prints are silhouettes of beetles with overlays of gold leaf on their wings in the design of stained-glass windows found in churches, and finally a kinetic sculpture of three-dimensional beetles with screen-printed wings also laid with gold leaf.

The collaborative artwork titled flock combines both printmaking and sculpture in an exciting way as the artists push to take print “off the flat page”.

“Dealing with this subject matter through art helps us as artists reckon with the loss of community, both due to the changes in our personal relationships with faith and time’s steady erosion of the rural communities our youths are connected to.” - Kelsey and Zachary in PODSASK interview.