Tenno Sooster:

- In the large Sooster family, different religions coexisted peacefully. Most of them practiced Lutheranism. However, my great-grandfather founded a Baptist prayer house in the village of Ühtri, where, at the request of the congregation, he gave sermons.

My grandmother, Ülo’s mother—Veera—came from the Tatter family, which had adopted Orthodoxy since the beginning of XVIII century. In fact, to this day, a representative of the Tatter family is chosen, generation after generation, as the elder of the parish.

As a result, Ülo grew up a completely non-religious person and was more inclined to believe in Martians and UFOs than in anything else.

But when my mother, Lidia Sooster, began decorating Easter eggs in large quantities for Orthodox Easter, I think my father remembered how the family used to celebrate Easter—decorating or dyeing eggs. And this probably pushed Ülo to paint the only work with a somewhat religious undertone.

In this way, Ülo expressed his childhood memories—through a large egg with a red cross and cheerful little dots that evoke the blossoming of juniper bushes surrounding the family farmstead on Hiiumaa.

So this egg is a kind of substance or extract of Ülo’s memories of Easter, as celebrated by the large Sooster family on the farm.