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Images in this blog were originally posted on the now defunct Google+. With the demise of Google+, those images are no longer available.

For the sake of posterity, I am gradually re-uploading the images on Deviant Art. There are more than 1200 images to be posted, and it is time-consuming.

The images posted till date can be seen at the following link:

https://www.deviantart.com/curiousjm/gallery

Please visit above link regularly to view recently added images. Thanks.

The Silent People

The Silent People is an amazing but a bit bizarre looking art work on a field on Highway 5 about 25 km. north of the town of Suomussalmi, Finland. It consists of about 1200 scarecrow like figures wearing colourful clothes with their heads made of peat. The clothes of these scarecrows are changed twice a year using the clothes collected from donation. Reportedly some visitors to the location occasionally exchange their dresses with those of the scare crow figures. No one knows the idea behind the Silent People. The artist, Reijo Kela, refuses to provide any answer and says that each viewer is free to make his/her own conclusions. (More information and photos in my Blog; Travelogue Of An Armchair Traveller).