Between Heaven and Earth

Parantainen’s sculptures address spiritual and immaterial themes that are examined through delicate, small-scale objects, transparent materials. A laboratory glass turned upside down, covered with gold flakes on the top, protects a small globe, which stood on the artist's shelf for over 30 years "Biggest Unknown Curved Over”. A doll's head covered with gold leaf, feathers around, held up by a putto (baby angel), a type of guardian spirit trapped in a laboratory glass, is observed through the telescope of a French soldier in uniform from the Napoleonic wars. A strange composition of different elements, a messy and very open story – in other words: "Golden Dew of Sleep”. Every Steampunk-style sculpture carries an ultimate secret, a message tucked inside, written by the artist. These sculptures become portals to transport the viewer through the artist’s imagined world of myths and emotions that could be found on Jules Verne’s submarine that floats in a sea of Fluxus surrealism.