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Duration of residence<\/strong>: March – April, 2023<\/p>\n Creation Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n communal flat<\/strong><\/p>\n they turned my building it was living space assigned in rooms without an address the footprints of strangers\u2019 lives the faded colour of floorboards in extremely tiny rooms until smoke from the stove began blowing in how I liked to sit there in my home the smell of freshly-brewed coffee or its shadow Poem from the collection \u201eVivarium\u201d (Vivaarium, 2019)<\/em> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winner of the scholarship under the project \u201eArtist Residencies\u201c Duration of residence: March – April, 2023 Creation Work: communal flat they turned my buildingupside down from cellar to atticthey turned it on its head from top to bottomthey broke down the door of my home and insisted it was living space assignedto them starting from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Maarja P\u00e4rtna - TVRC","description":"Winner of the scholarship under the project \u201eArtist Residencies\u201c Duration of residence : March - April, 2023 Creation Work: communal flat they turned my buildin"},"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[174,184],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-residents","tag-artist-residencies-en","tag-maarja-partna-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvrc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
upside down from cellar to attic
they turned it on its head from top to bottom
they broke down the door of my home and insisted<\/p>\n
to them starting from now.<\/p>\n
in a country world maps
don\u2019t remember anymore<\/p>\n
on exhausted steps of staircases
the jangling of the cold latch
on the downstairs door<\/p>\n
the plywood chairs with worn-out seats
lined up against the wall<\/p>\n
in a country where an immense history
forced strangers to live in close quarters<\/p>\n
the stove collapsed, the paint peeled
and no one cared in the least<\/p>\n
in the mornings all by myself<\/p>\n
in my kitchen<\/p>\n
a vase with a lilac branch<\/p>\n
like a memory left without a body.<\/p>\n
Translated by Jayde Will<\/em>
Published in the UK by The Emma Press, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n