Estonian Love Token (2018)

Mapping out elements for pages. Sourced from Farmi milk cartons while Tartu artist in Residence in Estonia, 2017.

This stab bound book makes use of milk cartons collected in the course of an artist residency at the Estonian Printing and Paper Museum, Tartu, in 2017, as well as a subsequent visit in 2018. This particular brand of milk featured the slogan “Thank you for loving Estonian milk” (Aitäh, et armastad Eesti piima). The design is loosely based on traditional Baltic jewellery. In being transformed into a ‘necklace’, the cartons themselves have been reimagined as a clichéd token of love.