It was the year I began preparing for my first solo exhibition, which was also my first painting exhibition –
“Hortus. Aed ja Ruum”. I began painting a garden – a garden that, for me, also symbolises a space, an inner space.

To view that garden from afar, to move from the tiniest details towards a broader vision – to paint boldly and expansively, without control, without fear of making mistakes. To reach a larger picture. To reach abstraction. To reach an inner space where secret gates appear, guiding you forward. These are hidden gates. To come to the realisation that the garden is within you – the place where everything begins to sprout, everything grows, and where all the fruits you long for can be harvested.