Perceptual Zones

The oil painting series "Perceptual Zones" was started in 2009.



Abstractions of geographic areas accompanied by their factual coordinates depict regions, contemporary states and nations’ territories as an intuitive mental image. Blueprint fragments constitute a distinctive overlay that conveys a subjective alternative landscape. A region may also be transformed to a new form of landscape, referring to the new aspects of perception generated by a collective memory.

Redefining perceptions often depends on an individual stance, causing the series to raise the question: whether the outcome is determined by a political power, the observing individual or other factors?


"War for 2 Players"/ "Linnade põletamine"
125 x 160 cm. Oil on canvas, 2011

" War for Two Players" maps out violent events of destruction and looting in Estonia throughout the known history. External forces have been playing here for wealth, fame and power as if it was just a game.


"Pandemonium"
125 x 160 cm. Oil on canvas, 2010

"Pandemonium" is a disturbingly realistic landscape; a place that resides in the subconciousness of the Western society. The landscape is constructed of five top crisis hotspots - according to the widespread view endorsed by media – which have melted into one diabolical construct. Careful observation reveals the border between the two Koreas, the Niger Delta, the Golan Heights, Tehran and the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan.


Pandemonium (Perceptual Zones series) at the Freies Museum Berlin, Germany, 2010.
Exhibition: STATE: Cohort Now.

"Pandemonium" presents a frontier where ordinary spatial relations do not cross - to grasp the nature of the image requires positioning oneself in the universe of fractured information created by mass media and also demands an accute proprioception.

Pandemonium is envisaged as a diabolic landscape; a real place that resides not on Earth but in concious and subconcious parts of our minds, a disturbing yet inevitable reality. The landscape is constucted of five conflict areas - areas that according to a wide-spread and perhaps biased political view can and do have an enormous influence to the world's well-being holding important positions in international security as well as in world economy. If looked carefully, one can recognize these areas - the border of two Koreas, the Golan Heights, the Niger Delta, Durand Line (the Afghanistan-Pakistani border), and the modern-day Persia.

Many of the countries in Pandemonium are well equipped to bring doom and gloom far beyond the reach of conventional weaponry. If any of the conflicts should escalate, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea are now believed to have enough nuclear power to expand Pandemonium all over the Blue Planet and possibly bring the human race to extinction. Naturally, there is no suggestion how Pandemonium should be healed.

The artist here is an observer who can only increase the public awareness and reemphasize problems of the modern world as seen through an map-maker's eyes. The painting becomes a source of information - a new type of media where information is fused together in order to generate new meanings and understanding.


"Blue Conglomerate"/ "Sinine Konglomeraat"
125 x 160 cm. Oil on canvas, 2011

Blue Conglomerate is a dreamy island cemented together by a single currency. In reality, dreams seldom come true - while one side of it is being built, the other is already decomposing.


"18° 32' N, 72° 20' W - Port-au-Prince, Haiti" at the Rag Factory Gallery, London, UK, 2010.
Exhibition: "Genesis: Art for Haiti"


"18° 32' N, 72° 20' W - Port-au-Prince, Haiti"
70 x 50 cm. Oil on canvas, 2010

"18° 32' N, 72° 20' W - Port-au-Prince, Haiti" - was created explicitly for the exhibition "Genesis: Art for Haiti".


"63° 38' N, 19° 36' W – Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland" and "25° 37' N, 88° 19' E – Kaliyaganj, India" at the Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011.

"25° 37' N, 88° 19' E – Kaliyaganj, India" and "63° 38' N, 19° 36' W – Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland" draw attention to the subjectivity of today's media as the event which occurred in Iceland was subject to much different media coverage compared to a devastating catastrophe in India at the same time in early 2010.


"63° 38' N, 19° 36' W – Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland"
33 x 41 cm. Oil on canvas, 2010


"25° 37' N, 88° 19' E – Kaliyaganj, India"
33 x 41 cm. Oil on canvas, 2010


Solo show "Perceptual Zones", Draakon Gallery,Tallinn, Estonia, 2011.

New paintings were presented at the Draakon Gallery from 20th June till 9th July in Estonia, Tallinn - European Capital of Culture 2011.