Today is the last day of our month as artists in residence here at MoKS.
We picked wild mushrooms and blueberries in the forest. Mmmm. We drew pictures to find out that the fish van comes at 14:00 on Mondays and Thursdays. The fish was good but had lots of bones. Other culinary highlights were the rollmops and the kohuke.
Van
I discovered old magazines from the 1930s that had been left here from a collage workshop. The puppets I made from the pictures became the basis for a new work. Creepy black and white photos of children holding toys. I experimented with watercolour painting and made painted watercolour puppets.
I scoured toy shops and second hand shops and found strange plastic creatures. Growling biting dogs and demented dolls. The toy museum in Tartu is beautiful. I loved the wooden traditional Estonian toys and the doll house furniture carved by a man hidden in a potato bin for 10 years. When we read that, we initially thought he must have been very small, then we realised that in Estonia, potato bins are relatively big.
Camilla
I recorded lots of sounds from around the village. The quiet of the forest was unsettling but beautiful. The children playing in the lake. I picked up some lovely pieces of scrap metal that I incorporated into our live performance.
We spent most of our time working on a new performance work that premiered on the 25th of August at Genialistide Klubi in Tartu. In the doorway was a giant painted onion.
It's strange how a month can pass so quickly.
