Luumu Tursas

About the artwork

Let There Be a Thousand Devils, a Thousand Gods is a sculpture installation that makes us consider our own part in nature and the way we run away from it. Hanging on to the past with a dejected heart, the work studies the question of what it means to be a human in our time.

It is eternal knowledge, that if you take something, you need to give something back. In ancient times, the people of this remote part of the world, like people everywhere, used to give offerings to the gods of nature – to keep the peace. Something fundamental for humanity was forgotten when earth-religions were forced into the oblivion.

The endless eco-systems of our planet are truly ingenious: You are composed of atoms, carbon, water, tiny bugs of all sorts, electric impulses, and perhaps even a soul. The land under your feet consists of mycelia, trees, plants, and living beings, through which information passes, as if Earth was some enormous, thinking entity.

It must be painful to be born at any era. We are only given a brief moment to find time to love and wonder. There is a shivering chasm between loneliness and connection, in which we run.