All the faces of the Apple Tree

Lying beneath the crab apple tree that gifts the Helsinki cultural centre Makamik its name, Huge Sillytoe orchestrated a collective reading of the shapes, shades, textures, and smells of the tree as a poem of sounds and movements. A selection of the creatures seen within the branches and expressed through the poem were then converted into masks made of materials reclaimed within the local area and an automatic happening-workshop held for each character to come to life. Reports suggest they have since been seen causing trouble in apple trees across the whole of Finland.

Photos: Anu Nirkko