Tatu Hiltunen

Jamais Vu, 2008

DVD, 2 min 43 sec, go motion / stop motion animation. song: Guardian Angel, traditional Finnish folk song.

The term jamais vu (from the French, meaning ”never seen”) is used to describe any familiar situation, word, person, or place which is not recognized by the observer that he/she already knows. Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.

No man is an island, but every man is a garden. Secret garden. World is a garden where I am trapped in. Every day I am looking for the hole in the fences or gate out of my garden. When I´ll find it, I think I must have seen that before. But.

Every time I wake up, I see the same dream. World is a zoo, a cage, rules and laws, physics of video or photograph, where I am trapped in. No way out, only used and old maps directing me to delusions and misconceptions. Here is no why.

Concurrently as I live as cultivating or decaying my garden; I am also the garden, which is nurtured or contaminated by …  Through this, temporal and timeless, brief and eternal, mortality and immortality, life and art, video and photograph are different sides of same thing unfolding at the same time. The present is inexplicable and unreachable moment in Garden of synesthesia caged amidst those sides. Like spinning coin on the table.

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Suojelusenkeli, trad. (in Finnish)

Maan korvessa kulkevi lapsosen tie.
Hänt’ ihana enkeli kotihin vie.
Niin pitkä on matka, ei kotia näy,
vaan ihana enkeli vierellä käy.

On pimeä korpi ja kivinen tie
ja usein se käytävä liukaskin lie.
Oi, pianhan lapsonen langeta vois’,
jos käsi ei enkelin kädessä ois’.

Maan korvessa kulkevi lapsosen tie.
Hänt’ ihana enkeli kotihin vie.
Oi, laps’ ethän milloinkaan ottaa sä vois’
sä kättäsi enkelin kädestä pois?

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