Site 12. Anu Lehtonen (Finland)
Shovelling Snow (2000)
Scorpio Books
1st September - 15th October 2002

Shovelling Snow was a short video work about a young man meditating on his life: the monologue focused on what remains when everything else falls to pieces. This contemplative study was appropriately sited in a bookshop - surrounded by many other stories, it was yet another encapsulation of human vulnerability but here metaphorically depicted by the fragility of snow and through the combination of forwards and backwards filming. The snowman was like a self portrait - the young man with his watering can and shovel added to and then removed the likeness he had made. The viewer was left to consider his/her own existence when there was nothing left but an empty snow-covered place - the whiteness a blank canvas upon which one could project.

Curator: Ewen McDonald