Engaging with the Earth’s voice: Data as caring attachments

We are skiing toward a wilderness hut in Pyhä-Luosto National Park, in Finnish Lapland. We are here to revisit the hut that serves as one of the galleries for our “Earth’s voice” exhibition. For some months now, wooden storybooks and photographs of this exhibition have invited visitors to reflect on how human guests visit forests and paths. Our work has been guided by the idea of engaging with the supposedly mundane, earthly relations in new ways, and the images and stories in this particular hut draw attention to questions of growth and wellbeing, for instance, from the mosses’ perspective. Through the hut’s window, we can see that someone is in there, reading our book by candlelight. We stamp the snow out of our ski boots, share a smile, and open the door to enter.