Svetlana Litvintceva, Yulia Vakushkina & Victoria Lihacheva
Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia

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We are students of the northern city of the Komi Republic Syktyvkar - Svetlana, Yulia and Victoria. Our project is about paper recycling. It was not the paper recycling process itself that was important to us, but communication and spending time together. Old books, magazines,paper - an affordable material that does not require expensive investments.

At first, we went and were inspired by the nature of Komi, its places and sounds, and its culture. Northern nature is really a real aesthetic, it is minimalistic, and there is a great value in this minimal amount of things in nature. The North is a state of mind, and when we are alone with nature, we rest our minds.

The process of making paper has become a real night magic for us: Delicious smells, sounds, tactile sensations - all this we were able to feel at our meetings.

From the received materials, we decided to create a postcard “Birds", then send them to the participants of the spring school. Birds live anywhere on the planet, and their singing is inspiring. They connect our territories.
The paper turned out to be very fragile, it was torn. Our world is just as easy to destroy, it must be protected.

In the video, we showed the process of getting the paper, the beautiful views and the atmosphere of our north.