The art installation is located next to the Niittykahvila Café, which offers Finnish crepes to visitors. "The Quiet People" figures are "clothed with new, clean clothes twice a year, at the beginning of the summer and in the autumn." They also "receive new heads straight from the field at the beginning of every summer." Their clothes are from donations.Ĭourtesy: niittykahvila.fi Niittykahvila Café and Hay Barn The Silent People found their current home in the autumn 1994. They held the performance at the beach of Joenuoma, Ämmänsaari. The People were part of a performance "Kauniit ja rohkeat, rantojen raukat" ("The Bold and the Beautiful, the Wretches of the Beaches") by Reijo Kela and Heikki Laitinen in 1994. When the event at Senaatintori was over, the People disappeared as abruptly as they had appeared. In the morning, there were 700 hay heads standing on the stairs, confounding the market place visitors and passers-by. During the night, the People appeared on the stairs of Helsinki Cathedral.
The next appearance of these hay heads occurred in Helsinki in 1994 when the Kainuu region presented itself at Senaatintori. He created the People as part of the performance in the Lassila field at Suomussalmi. These hay heads appeared in Suomussalmi for the first time in 1988 when dancer and choreographer Reijo Kela created them as part of his Ilmarin kynnös performance. The website for "The Quiet People" said that "travellers on Highway 5 are greeted by a peculiar sight of people-like figures."
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