Part nine: Final days in Estonia
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The final images I had taken while in Mooste.
I'm not entirely sure why there's a wagon wheel in the top of
a tree in Mooste, but there it is. And I had always gotten a
kick out of the Estonian signage that fastidiously denoted the
end of particular zones. This one designated the city limits
for Mooste; but I couldn't help thinking it was a prohibitive
sign: "No, Mooste! No urban growth beyond this line! No!
Bad village!"
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...and a few more sites from the Estonian power grid.
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More, Soviet ruins! The top
six images were of the Avangard complex northeast of Tartu,
with the remaining five of the Viru complex near the northern
end of Lake Peipsi. Here, both John Grzinich and Toomas Thetloff
joined me in a number of recording sessions with the crumbled
architectural spaces.
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| Tallinn! Fortresses and protective walls
run throughout the Old Town of Tallinn, dating many centuries
back. It was curious to contrast the stability of these structures
against Soviet engineering, which so often used shoddy construction
techniques and / or materials that the buildings didn't last
more than a few decades, much less centuries. The two images
on the top row to the right are of the Linnahall. Built in 1980,
this is still in operation as a concert hall but has plenty
of cracks and crumbles in its imposing concrete structure. |