I mean, wow, talk about neglect; the last public post on this website was December Well, I've been busy. Actually, since before that; in May , I started working on the next "big" project of mine: Perfect Lives. The short version is that I bought an old, rotting former train station in the Estonian countryside, and started renovating it, with the idea to open as a public platform and also for my own practice. This is the former train station of Tori, Estonia, which is oddly not actually located in the town of Tori but in another village 3km away.
This building is about years old, and was one of two houses built for the railway workers to live in. The original station burned down at some point probably during the war? That was the last time anyone was actually living in it, and as a result there was a tremendous amount of work that had to be done just to make it minimally habitable.
And there's still a long way to go. As of December, the ground floor of the house is more or less functional, which still leaves the second floor and above to deal with the roof is an absolute disaster. But it's time to get some activities started here, assuming I can find anybody who wants to come and make some.
But what exactly do I want to do? There's an open call for collaborators up at call. Take a look at that before you read any further. If you know me and my work, you'll know that from I was mostly busy operating various cultural platforms Ptarmigan, Temporary, Kuusi Palaa, and the Pixelache Festival. Since the collapse of Kuusi Palaa in summer , I have been laying low, working on a few low-key personal creative projects, and then since , planning Perfect Lives.
And mostly taking on an enormous amount of freelance work in the private sector to finance the renovations. A lot has changed in this time, both with me personally and in the world.
