Tranquility of the Black Flowers is a puppetry performance about the Finnish poet Katri Vala, her passionate life and her slow death. Katri Vala (1901–1944) was a poet, translator and a teacher. Vala wrote her vivid, sensual poetry in free verse and was one of the founding members of Kiila, a leftist group of artists and writers.
Tranquility of the black flowers depicts a woman's metamorphosis, arising equally from internal pressure and external inevitability. She blossoms, ripens, and withers. Her body changes shape — it wilts into blood and skin and is reborn in brutal and glorious transformations. The performance combines strong physicality and visual illusions, the wonders of puppet theater with audiovisual storytelling.