The landscapes of countryside are shaped by mankind for thousand of years.
In Finland, once by burning down forests for fields and by putting cattle out to pasture, now by agriculture, pasture and forestry. Formed landscapes nowadays called cultural landscapes.

In this exhibition I consider country landscapes as a works of art, as a kind of landscape culture which is created mostly by country people.

A field is an earthwork and a work of environmental art, which changes its expression by growing, by agriculture measures and by light conditions. Usually a forest is a work made by human activities, of which unintentional art values are not so obvious. Typically commercial forests have certain pattern which in older forests brings sense of architectural space.

I have used unfocusing in photographs to underline the work of art -esque of country landscape. The unfocusing highlights the meaning of colours and simplifies forms; becomes one kind of summary, abstract of object. This summary is painting-esque, so photograph is here in double role; documentary by principle and fictional by impression. Country people with machines and cattles are producing food, but at the same time they have been creating global work, countryside.