'Elo' is a finnish word meaning both 'life' and 'ripe crop ready for harvesting'.
The history of mankind indeed is linked for the successful harvest or its failure.
Ripe crop is also known as a symbol of death, end of life.
The crops are hand made, individuals with mistakes contrary to industrial mass production. It might also happen that this domesticated cereal grass growing inside is mutated, infected by ergot.
Artist Erika Erre (born 1979) grew most of her childhood surrounded by fields.
Many thanks for Finnish Cultural Foundation and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland.