Latvian Art - Blog Posts

A childrens book cover I found for the legend Lāčausis (bear ears) which inspired Andrejs Pumpurs to write the epic Lāčplēsis (bear ripper)

I'm on holiday and staying in Riga for a few days and wanted to bring attention to the beautiful faces around the city!

I think that in the advent of modernization, people have left behind the idea of everyday art , art that enriches communal spaces and adds character to places. I've been thinking about it a lot, how this kind of lush art isn't as common as it might have been before, and how it's so noticeable now when it is there because we often are absent of it.

But they were brothers.

I'm going back to my roots with this one because the Lāčplēsis rock opera never truly leaves my mind, THEY WE'RE BROTHERS not by blood but by choice! until the interferance of enemy forces and the influence of greed and guilt tore them apart, its literally tragic and on my mind all the time.