FOREST ALPHABET, 2025
Katie Holten, Forest Alphabet (detail), 2025. © HAM / Helsinki Biennial / Maija Toivanen and Henni Hyvärinen
Commissioned for the Helsinki Biennial, Forest Alphabet includes a series of drawings, watercolors, prints, and a bespoke typeface, accompanied by a printed booklet and guided forest walks.
Download the Learning to be Better Lovers booklet here.
What is the language we need to live right now? How can we learn to be better lovers of the world?
The project was launched on June 8, 2025, during the opening weekend of the Helsinki Biennial when Katie Holten led a forest walk to explore these questions and reflect on the significance of human connection with the more-than-human world as we collectively face the sixth mass extinction.
Katie created the Forest Alphabet (for Finland), a bespoke font commissioned for the Helsinki Biennial 2025.
