Basketmaker Yuri Khodij

A piece of Arkhangelsk in Spildra

Artist and craftsman Yuri Khodij (Ходий Юрий) from Arkhangelsk makes a traditional wood chip basket. Over the course of a summer, Yuri and a few other craftsmen built a traditional Sami boat house on the island of Spildra in Kvænangen. The island has a population of 26, and is an ancient place of settlement, with many cultural heritage sites. In the evenings, or when the weather didn’t encourage outdoor working, Yuri prepared material and made traditional wood chip baskets from left over material and drift wood.

More about the boat house project (in Norwegian)

 

© augnetjuv 2018

Photo/edit: Silje Ensby