Aura Street Market is more than an annual event, it's a meeting point for local artists, artisans, and creative people of complex backgrounds. The name Aura comes from the river that runs through Turku, right next to this place. The actual market was indoors, but the society also organizes other cultural events in different urban settings around Turku.
Just look at these color-saturated items of beauty! They are felt vests with lace made by C04 Luomus (click the name for their own site). I got one a few years ago in deep purple, and I love it.
Guess who found these kitty cat, octopus, and owl pins interesting? We bought a yellow cat and an octopus with striped tentacles. They are made by Nuttu-Liina (click the name to take a look at her children's clothing, purses, hats, notebooks... all from recycled materials).
Hooked design (or originally Virkkuukoukussa in Finnish, click click clickety click) makes hand-crocheted lace carpets from left-over material of the textile industry. The design is inspired by the windows of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.
We headed back outside to Vanha Suurtori, the first market place of Turku and the point where the town itself started evolving in the 1200s. My daughter wanted to play in the Stream of Time, one of the best known pieces of environmental art in town, made in 2000 by Kain Tapper.
We then crossed the street to the cathedral. The first version of it was built in the late 1200s, but it has suffered from many fires - just look at those layers from different centuries. It just so happened that another work of environmental art was being built there at that very moment - a gerbera labyrinth with couches in the middle!
We asked permission to go in and were for the time being denied, but were given a flower instead.
We made it back to the car just as the next rain came. It was
The Perfect Afternoon.
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