New work by Anne-Liis Leht
She came to the exhibition with her children. But the little ones didn’t distract her—the play area of the Pikk Maja museum had completely absorbed them. She was free to read and reread the lines about Ülo Sooster’s youth. To gaze at the photographs taken during his arrest. The exhibition ‘Prison and Love. Life and Dream. Ülo Sooster 100’ captivated her. She felt a new dimension of time and space. And she realized she would definitely create an egg—a glass egg. And inside it would be a portrait of Ülo Sooster.
Glass artist Anne-Liis Leht fulfilled the promise she made to herself at the museum on her native island of Hiiumaa.
She made that egg. Astonishing. Heavy. And from within it, Ülo looks out. “And if Ülo painted a giant egg the color of molten iron, there could be no doubt that… it lay on the surface of an unknown planet in the thirtieth dimension, and within it, most likely, was developing the embryo of the world soul.” (Quote from Irina Uvarova’s article ‘Ülo Sooster. Apple, Fish, Egg’)
