Shade

Ilari Hautamäki’s (born 1983) painted work Siimes (‘Shade’) covers the surfaces of the concrete walls in the yard of Munkkivuori Comprehensive School, Lower Stage, with a jungle vegetation motif. The work also includes a painting hung in the school’s lobby.

Hautamäki says that he examined the relationship between the built environment and vegetation in his paintings. The plant-themed piece in ...