Santtu Mustonen creates a psychedelic animation from discarded sketches

Date
17 October 2014

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If, like me, you spent many an hour in your teenage years gazing absentmindedly at Larry Carlson’s experimental website Medijate, you’ll no doubt be similarly transfixed by The Landfill from the very talented Santtu Mustonen. Stitching together a “collection of unused sketches, leftover drawings and rejected ideas from forgotten projects” to a mesmerising soundtrack by Tuomas Alatalo, Santtu created a hypnotic animation that’s a work of art in its own right.

It’s oddly resonant of a post-apocalyptic underwater scene, like going on a snorkelling trip after a freak storm has washed an indiscriminate collection of stuff into the ocean. A stripy fern waves serenely around next to a crumpled bicycle wheel, while a psychedelic snail creeps slowly under a jazzy bell and yellow pear. It’s a swift reassurance that just because a sketch didn’t fit the first time round, it doesn’t mean it should be exiled to your trash can for ever more.

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Santtu Mustonen: The Landfill (still)

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Santtu Mustonen: The Landfill (still)

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Santtu Mustonen: The Landfill (still)

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Santtu Mustonen: The Landfill (still)

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Santtu Mustonen: The Landfill (still)

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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