In August 2012 I was almost ready with my Ph.D. thesis. The preliminary reviews had been quite positive. I was content and confident about my research as well as about the thesis in its written form. Then the reality of the formalities in waiting struck me. It was not at …
In the beginning there were 366 small poems. Bengt Pohjanen wrote one poem each day during the leap-year 2012. He wrote them in meänkieli, which is close to Finnish but being a local variant in the northern parts of Sweden it is recognized as an official minority language in Sweden. …
In June this year, I visited the Kumu art museum in Tallinn, Estonia, to see a small exhibition about metamorphoses of Malevitch’ Black Square in Estonian art. The exhibition was small and there was nothing particularly exciting about it, apart from the fact the square had clearly both inspired and …
