Thanks to Finnish Cultural Foundation Liikkuvuus 2021


 

HimmeliNeighbourhood
is a study illustrating the expansion of the use of the Himmeli technique in contemporary northeastern Europe.

The idea is to update Mrs. Kurrik's map, which shows the expansion of the Himmeli technique in Europe in 1928.

The purpose of the study is to collect the information, from the countries we can find “himmelis” in one book which will be written in English. We regret deeply the removal of all original languages! But as the goal is to share this mutual information globally, we ought to use English. This choice of language seems despite natural in 2020's. The neighbours will get better possibility to understand “others”. In such a way the myths and knowledge of this very ancient, still living and widely spread artistic tradition will finally be easily found by the large public.