The rock cut, located near the Mäntylahti exit along highway 5, is almost 200 meters long and about 8 meters high. Partanen & Lamusuo searched for interesting shapes from the rock cut, which were highlighted with a bronze coating. Bronze Flow 3 is illuminated, so the environmental artwork can be seen even in the dark.

"The work was made on the terms of the rock, and searching for forms required listening to the rock. Bronze Flow 3 is designed so that the work can be viewed from a passing car. The work unfolds in different ways when viewed from different directions. When you drive by, it becomes like a picture story," describes Heikki Lamusuo.

Bronze Flow 3 honors Arttu Halonen and Elias Halonen, Finland's first art casters who made an impact in Lapinlahti, and the tradition of art casting that has continued to the present day.

"The first Finnish art casters once did pioneer work. With the piece, we want to continue the tradition of art casting: someone has blown up a rock cut, and we look for shapes from it and, as it were, cast them out with a bronze coating," says Jaana Partanen.

"In the highlighted forms, you can see the cracks, layers and cleavage surfaces formed when the bedrock was born and folded, so nature and the earth are artists involved in the creation of the work, and we get to be bronze casters," continues Lamusuo.

The roots of Bronze Flow 3 go back more than 20 years, i.e. in the year 2001, when the first Bronze Flow was completed in Lapinlahti. Bronze Flow 1 was destroyed in connection with the construction of new overtaking lanes and junctions on highway 5. The impressive work was a distinctive part of the area, so North Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment commissioned a new work from Partanen & Lamusuo near the location of the original work.

"The original Bronze Flow had become an important landmark in the area, which makes it clear that it is close to Lapinlahti. Bronze Flow 3 continues to be a landmark, which is familiar in terms of execution and coloring, but unique in form and appearance," says Partanen.