THE STAR TRAVELLER - Anne Pajuluoma

PREFACE

The very questions of human existence - origin, purpose and aim, and the circle of life and death -
have occupied thinking minds since the awakening of self consciousness. Philosophers, scientists, religious mystics and artists have given varying answers at different points of history. Yet, the mystery prevails, and seems out of reach, or even of interest, to common man, preoccupied with matters of daily survival and material world. Coming out of this everyday routine, in her book, The Star Traveller, Anne Pajuluoma boldly presents her own stand on these basic questions. She takes gigantic steps from the Earth to the Universe, to Stars, to her real Home, and strikes the reader with most vivid descriptions of her experiences in spheres, which first seem
unreal and imagined, but which towards the end of the book convincingly become the realms of our very souls and originis.

Particularly in our modern western societies we are taugh to believe only in what we see and what
natural sciences explain as clear concrete facts. Spiritual, deeply religious and extrasensory knowlegde is generally disregarded and undervalued as irrational. But a change is predictably coming, and - no doupt - Anne Pajuluoma is one of its heralding personifications. The Star Traveller takes us to the cosmic "other" world, which the ancient civilisations seemed to have been
aware of, which non-western cultures more or less silently continuously believe in, and of which new signs are appearing.

The Star Traveller is an exeptional literary work. It transcends times and spaces, it embraces religion, philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as technology, psychology and cosmic poetics.
Anne Pajuluoma is an exceptional writer. She is able to interprete in a clear way the knowledge she has acquired from persons whom she has met during her cosmic space travels. The dialogue is full of evidence of contacts, of sympathy and wisdom. She expresses her comprehension of cultures, her visions of essential truth, good and beauty in an original, lovingly artistic way.

The book has a Message from the Space to people on the Earth. Even the most sceptical scientist should not turn his ear to this Message, there is more beyond our lives than the rational
actuality, and understanding a bit more of it can increase much our earthly happiness and peace.

I am writing this in Kyoto, Japan, and have just seen an exhibition of about 1000 years old paintings, which are full of Heavenly figures ascending or descending the Space, surrounded by beauty and beams of light. The images are esoteric and metaphorical, but for a Japanese philosopher these religo-artistic expressions were manifestations and messages, at their time, of the absolute great nothingness, the profoundest origin of all, which was far, and beyond common
intellect. And he adds that at the turn of the next millenium we may again, in a different way, new
comprehension of it.

After having read Anne Pajuluoma´s THE STAR TRAVELLER one knows what she means.

Kyoto, October 1998.

Sonja Servomaa, Dr.
Researcher on comparative and transcultural philosophy of art.

anne@artstargate.com
 

Tähteläiset – Meet You in Finland Angel - 2003

Documentary film, 35 min, dolby digital, 35 mm film, dvd video
first exhibited at Artspace Visual Arts Center - Sydney - Australia 2003
Group exhibition "Emphaty" - curated by Marketta Seppälähe characters

Excerpts

The Characters

Writer Anne Pajuluoma and the artist Jarmo Ylänen of Helsinki do not lead quite a normal life. Their existence, frugal and meagre in material terms, is surrounded by a world of miracle. Their daughter, lost and sorely missed, is growing up on the planet Sirius, and their everyday life is secured  by unexpected interplanetary visitors. Anne likes to stay at home spending her time writing poems, remembering a few visits to Sirius and looking after Jarmo, whose health  has been eroded by work...

On the means of the film

“Star Dwellers” is based on a dialogue of documentary and fictive scenes. The documentary video material (mini DV) presents the everyday life of the leading characters, while the 16mm black-and-white film material expands documentary reality towards the imaginary world of the characters. The film also contains 35mm footage in colour. The alternation of different film and video materials establishes visual layers in the film that seek to interpret the different levels of reality experienced by the characters and the lack of any boundaries when moving between them.

The use of documentary expression, here to present a reality appearing to be almost incredible, required the inclusion of fictive sequences. The film contains acted and staged scenes, and also a reconstruction of Anne’s visit to the planet Sirius C as told by her...

The film is partly based on the poetry anthologies of Anne Pajuluoma and her novels:
Tyttö Siriuksella (Girl on Sirius, 1975)
ja Tähtimatkaaja (Star Traveller, 1997).
Premiere, DocPoint-festival, Helsinki 2003

SOURCE: http://koti.welho.com/thippel2/meetyoupho.htm