URSULA

B7 Baltic Sea Island Network

Konstprojekt Ebakõla/ Dissonance
I staden Kuressaare, på Ösel i Estland 16 – 24.05.2016. 

Tillsammans med Nayab Ikram representerade jag Åland i  B7 samarbetets konstprojekt på Ösel  2016. Resan bekostades av Ålands landskapsregering.  

"Ebakõla/Dissonance är platsspecifik konst, vilket kan vara en skulptur eller installation skapad utifrån fritt valbara material. Konstverken skapas längs en 23,848 km lång cykelväg/ gångbana. Cykelvägen används flitigt av stadsborna. Konstverken kommer att stå kvar till augusti 2016."

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As I was working on what was going to be my piece of art I met people that by different reasons stopped and watched me.
Somebody thought I needed help.
Another one wondered what I was doing. 

A third person wanted to check that nothing illegal was taking place. 

A fourth one preferred to watch me from a distance. 

From a distance, on a bench, a resting place for You. You sat down, lit a cigarette.
Observed me curiously.
Took a deep breath at the cigarette. 

I was self-absorbed and isolated in a world of my own. 

We were all absorbed in ourselves and isolated. What happened to the meeting? 

That night I left parts of my work behind a stone and built a red table for You.
The next night the work behind the stone was not there anymore. 

So please sit down at the red table and light another cigarette. 

“-- What, then, does one experience of the You?
-- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it.
-- What, then, does one know of the You?
-- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.” ― Martin Buber, I and Thou