Ilmatar

For Helsinki Urban Art/Pasilia street art project 2018. Li's own words about the wall:
"Inspired by the Kalevala, a national epic that helped create Finnish culture, this is the story of Ilmatar, the primeval mother in Finnish mythology. One day she left heaven to float on earth for 700 lonely years. A bird searching for breeding ground landed on her knee as no lands existed yet. It laid eggs there that grew so hot from incubation they fell to the sea and broke open, unleashing the sun, moon and stars. The shells became the land on which everything grows.

I chose this story for its strong female character and the appreciation (the world is owed to her) that comes from that and the idea and homage to how art can shape culture and identity."