Raila Mar, Finland

As an artist I work with songs, writing and visual art as means for storytelling on various levels. My work is often site-specific, emphasizing the moment of the now. As a cultural producer I concentrate on the question of artistic practices supporting environmental work in a tangible manner.

Wonder (Law of Ecocide)

This song has first been born long time ago, and it has been shapeshifting - to finalize itself into this current form of supporting the Ecocide law internationally. Gilbert Kuppusami from Mauritius/Finland and his band have made the arrangements for this version of it, and Teemu Takatalo from Mutual Sound Studios has mixed and mastered the final version. We all fully support the international criminal law amendment with and through our art, since we can see and feel the ecocide happening in different parts of the world. It is the next generations and our children who will benefit the most when things are turned and transformed effectively now to protect the ecosystems and climate.

Turtle Song

This song was originally made in Copenhagen, Denmark with inspiration of an Danish artist Hans Scherfig's gravestone, which he designed to be like a turtle and where children can play nowadays. Later on, the song got more verses after I had traveled in Peru, where the indigenous peoples' elders facilitate and teach reconnecting deeply to our souls and to the natural world around. These both angles have led me to see how to embrace the cycles and how to act from the heart, respecting the healthy boundaries, which Law of Ecocide also is offering in the highest level for protecting the living earth. The instrumental sections are composed and finalized by Teemu Takatalo and the cello solo by Ulla Lampela. The painting "Transformations" is an artwork developed over a period of long time and now completed to support this collective movement of Stop Ecocide International.