The Noticed Unnoticed

Triin Jahu graduated from the Graphic Design programme at the Tartu Art School in 2023. The idea for a nature-focused exhibition emerged during a two-month Erasmus exchange in Iceland, where the harsh and untouched landscape taught her to notice what often remains unseen at first glance. While walking through forests, parks, and along the coastline, we tend to see only the bigger picture, overlooking the delicate patterns of lichens, the textures of rocks, and the intricate details of leaves. The artist has collected these moments and forms, transformed them into patterns, and transferred them onto textiles, creating a poetic interpretation of nature’s hidden beauty.

Merike Paberits, known as Paburitski, is familiar to many through the bands Black Bread Gone Mad and Nikns Suns. Life’s twists and turns have led her creative practice in a new direction — replacing flute and bagpipes with pen and paper as her primary means of expression. Through her minimalist and slightly naïve visual language, she portrays the animals and birds that inhabit Estonia’s forests, bogs, and coastlines — creatures whose presence often goes unnoticed, despite having been here far longer than the traces we leave behind.

In this exhibition, Paburitski presents six works depicting protected Estonian animal and bird species — lives that are fragile and whose future depends on a balance that humans often disrupt without even realising it. Her work encourages us to pause and listen. Not merely to look at nature as something beautiful, but to experience it as a living and interconnected whole. Every species, every sound, and every trace tells a story that may remain untold if we fail to notice and care.

This exhibition is an invitation to look more closely at nature — to discover its quiet, delicate patterns and the lives that surround us unnoticed.