Aino the Moonwalker
2022
Jewellery Collection
In this series I have been researching the movements of the moon. Last year I spent the month of May in Koli, in the na/onal park in North-Karelia, Finland. During this month I was gazing towards the sky, to the nature up there and observing the effects moon gives with its constant movement around the sun. Moon contains all layers of experiences from the fullest and brightest to the hidden and dark. Is the bright side only bright or light and dark always exist together? Could light exist without the darkness? To me seems that they always exist together in the nature and within us. In these pendants I choose to bring the joy up and stay in the bright side of the moon. Moon is a feminine symbol and we women are connected to its lunar cycles. The name Aino, meaning "the only one", in the /tle, was invented by Elias Lönnrot who composed the Kalevala. In the original poems she was men/oned as "the only daughter" or

