Price: €1550
Acrylic on canvas
The motif of a lake appearing unexpectedly—emerging or shifting its place to replace a field or an entire village—occurs in numerous stories within Estonian folklore. Such a transformative event may be triggered by something seemingly insignificant, such as the carelessness of villagers or the neglect of customs.
This recalls chaos theory and the butterfly effect—the sensitivity of nonlinear deterministic systems to initial conditions. The metaphor was famously illustrated by mathematician Edward Lorenz, who described how the flap of a butterfly’s wings might influence the formation of a storm.
