The Nest (Pesä) is my most recent art project. It emerged from the devastating fires of 2020, where bushland areas, including our Kangaroo Valley property, burnt down. Nest (Pesä) is a visual expression of grief for the destruction and death - of trees, birds, human and animal homes - and a quest for hope. Working with materials retrieved from the bush – fibre from the burnt trees, found feathers, grasses, sticks - becomes a ritual, a prayer, for healing what has been damaged. The wounds of the trees are my wounds; my existence depends on the life of plants, birds, insects, rivers.

Filmed by Terhi Hakola and Kristo Hakola-Parry.