Olen itä olen länsi / I am east I am west

I Am East I Am West consists of a large gilt bird made of bronze that is attached by its wing to a column-like red-painted steel pipe. The piece is 5.5 metres high and the bird's wingspan is about 2 metres. The artist Pekka Jylhä (b. 1955) has described the work as follows: "This work of Environmental Art has emerged and developed from a life on the boundary between two cultures. In my childhood i ...