Jaakko Heikkilä & Anastasia Khoroshilova Karelia Design From the Ural Mountains to

From the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Circle

uncontaminated nature and nature corrupted by man and his stories

Sara Abbaspour

Text by Nanda van den Berg

all surrounded by a dark

Jaakko Heikkilä & Anastasia Khoroshilova Karelia Design From the Ural Mountains toMythic Karelia, a treasure of poetry, a heart of Finnish language, an idyllic museum of an ancient past. With these words Karelia was described at the end of 19th century during the time of romantic Karelianism. Nowadays Karelia is a border district it is one nature, but, as one of the orders of EU, a politically and socially divided region. Russian photographer Anastasia Khoroshilova and Finnish photographer Jaakko Heikkil have worked separately but