An Installation in Nature has Climate Lessons for Humans

For the artist Antti Laitinen, his childhood playground among the trees and streams of central Finland has become an experiment in how the world can survive. He only has to look at the lichen sprinkled around the region’s landscape.Yes, that colorful symbiotic mishmash of fungus and algae may offer hope for our future. It is almost like a gauge for all that surrounds Laitinen in the region of Oulu, Finland, where…