Ristna
Ristna, 1996
electronics
Text read by Kersti Kreismann (from Tõnu Õnnepalus “Hind”)
Work is realized in SACMUS-studio, Helsinki, Finland
7’26”
Ristna is the name of the outermost top of a peninsula, but there’s no village; thick forests, heavy storms and a little of seabirds.
The presence of the sea fades all the nuances: quite rough, very clear, there’s only the massive of the water all around, dark roar, stones, some scattered pines. You can smell the fish, small salty fish, you can smell the time that is gone and some strange, gloomy wish there was no time in the future.
There’s something dead, dead being alive, there’s something mortal in the nature. Maybe it is because in those forests rarely anything flowers.
Above the treeline blink two lighthouses. One lower, another higher. They have different sequence. When the light rises from the water, they bleach away.