Animated drawing projected on canvas

Duration 6 min 40 s, 4k

Vocal and sound design Sarah Albu, sound engineering James O’Gallaghan

Supported by Kone Foundations Saari Residence

"...the sketch-like impressions present in the video animations emerge while viewing: line drawings and text fragments alternately appear and linger, only to become erased or crossed out. The animated animals and insects, the drawn landscape and the atmospheric colour abstractions form layers and build up into tiny beginnings of fables. Rannikko’s narrative is fragmentary and collage-like; instead of a story, the cartoon animations delineate a collection of processes taking place at different times and on different levels.Projected onto a canvas, the animated cartoon titled The Rat and the Border Dog was created mainly during a residency at the Saari Manor in autumn 2023. Rannikko drew its plant motifs outdoors, exposed to environmental changes in the nature areas at Mietoistenlahti around the manor. Cranes, insects and other creatures move at their own pace within the landscape, while the border dog guards a fence sliding in from the side. The work appears like an ecosystem of its own, allowing the viewer’s eye to pick out a piece here, now there. The elongated form of the stretched canvas emphasises the landscape quality of the piece: the animation resembles a window through which to touch the outside world. The soundscape of the piece is based on the human voice, and was composed and created by Sarah Albu, a vocalist based in Tio’tia:ke, Canada."Aleksandra Oilinki in press release of exhibition "Plenty" at Galerie Anhava in January 2024