Dreaming of Midsummer at Kalli's 2023

AG505509
artist book with collage from recycled envelopes and redundant Soviet era reference books
22 x 17 x 1.7 cm (h x w x d)

One of my most magical memories of Estonia is visiting a friend's home in the forest by a lake at midsummer. The first time I visited, Kalli's husband, Ove, was busy spinning honey because the beehive had just been trashed by a bear! I spent midsummer night around a bonfire as Kalli played the squeezebox, then everyone piled into the sauna to work up a sweat before jumping into the Kalli's personal forest lake. On my second visit, I encountered a beaver on my morning swim. Kalli has shared her lake with a moose, and her forest is inhabited with lynx, wolves, deer, hare, martins, foxes and all manner of creatures. It is like a fairytale. This book responds to my experience of midsummer at Kalli and Ove’s place (to where I would return in 2026 to undertake the Umela artist residency).

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