Dataset 2024

This ongoing body of work emerges from a dataset of my own photographic archive, and has been developed using a custom-trained AI model. The resulting images reflect traces of organic processes, entangled landscapes and fading ecological memory — not as representations of nature, but as a parallel system through which nature is perceived, remembered, and reimagined. In the summer of 2024, I walked hundreds of kilometres through Finnish nature. Along the way, I photographed what surrounded me — slowly, repeatedly — and assembled a dataset of 2,700 images. These photographs are now the raw material from which I build new visual forms with AI. The work is slow, bodily and image-based.

As the work evolves, I’ve begun integrating living materials into the images. In a series of experimental pieces, plants begin to grow through the printed surface. Slowly, the boundary between image and life dissolves. Some works visibly change over time, shaped by light, moisture, and decay. Others are preserved at a precise moment of transformation — fixed, yet carrying the trace of life within. As the boundary between image and life fades, the work also begins to pierce the living flesh of the viewer — not literally, but through the visceral recognition of one’s own organic matter, vulnerability, and transience.

Laura is working on the project throughout 2024 and 2025.
The first outcomes of the project will be presented in the Realities group exhibition at Vuotalo, a cultural venue run by the City of Helsinki. The exhibition opens on August 14, 2025, as part of the Night of the Arts event.