Sauna

What kind of space is Sauna? Finnish settlers in America - early 20th century - first thing what they build was the Sauna! It is a safeplace - it seems to protect and heal. Against cold and other villains, deseases. It is not a sexual place - therefore woman/man bipolarities are broken or at least put aside for a moment. Sauna experience someway escapes "real" and divides human bodies from ordinary. It loosens the knots of every days laws and emphasizes spirituality. Sauna for itself is just a place or space that has been built - it transforms to something more when it is in use - just like religion is a dead religion untill it´s been practised. Thereby sauna involves interaction between heat and the space of sauna and human being. Culture gets naked literally- humans in the dress of just born - thinking, perspiring -and even time seems to play tricks or atleast pace of urban life slows down. Thoughts carry people virtually through have dones and not have dones - memories rise up, dead seem to be alive - intersection of here and there.