Wednesday, March 21, 2012

THE FORESTS OF ESTONIA


When I moved from Estonia to Los Angeles I was only four years old but memories of the dead wood of Western Taiga are indelibly etched in my imagination.

Orestia Shestov at a friend's studio, 2012

My work as an artist and writer is rooted in those memories. No strip mall, no freeway, no glimmering marquee can efface those memories.