Picturing Estonia

Death Valley Still Life. B/W film photo from roadtrip to Nevada/Utah where I was in love with a Dutch map-maker who drove me around in a Corvette. Cut-outs from a copy of the Estonian almanac “Art and Home” about art and interior design, edition 1, 1976. Found at a used bookstore in Viljandi on a day with unusual amounts of snow. Paper made from old Soviet books by volunteers at the old printing press Screen-print by Arthur at Kuus Planeet in the old Soviet widget factory Aparaaditehas. Size A3 


Ghost of Moscow. Negative of photo taken in Moscow where I was in love with a double base player, jazz. Scanned on my father’s scanner at my parents’ home, Denmark. Photo of Estonian Cemetery in Orlovka, Siberia. By Vabamu, found on the website https:// estonianworld.com/ where I was reading about the deportations of Estonians during WWII GIMP photo editor, downloaded for free Printed very grumpily on a transparent sheet by a man in a printshop next to the Tartu Opera. He needed three attempts to get it right, I paid for two, 0.70EUR Overhead projector. Size A4 

Ebay Map with Ruins. Soviet topographic military map of Tartu, scale 1:50.000, ed. 1979 Bought from Ebay seller ursansdd (100% positive feedback) in Riga Latvia, November 2022 Marbled paper from Tartu art supply store where I uttered my first Estonian sentence: do you speak English? Images of Toome Cathedral Ruins, Tartu, one of the few historical “buildings” printed at the university where I work and glued onto areas with Soviet building blocks. Size 34×46 cm