Sanni Saarinen

In 2015 I moved back to Finland, to my home country, after living years abroad. Soon after our daughter was born. My spouse is Spanish so our family still spends part of the year in Spain. Moving back to Finland; becoming a mother and living between two countries have made me to think about roots and identity a lot. 

This ongoing project is about my search and longing for roots, about the roots I want my daughter to have and about humans universal need to find a community and place to belong to.

The feeling of belonging is familiar to the feeling of being connected. It gives deeper meaning to our lives and existence. That is why nature plays such a huge role in my own search of roots and belonging: through the nature I am not only connected to place, but to universe and myself.