FOREST VED, 2015

35 x 50 cm - edition 25
70 x 100 cm - edition 10

VEDS are very tall male beings very similar to humans that live in deep in the woods. When they talk or sing they can be heard very far. They are extremely strong; they can pull trees out with their roots and carry them on their shoulders. They live in tribes, and they have their cities inside the woods. There are good and bad ones. Bad ones are never around people but stay deep in the woods, and they are also known as FOREST VEDS. They don’t kill people, but if they come across one, they take them to their city and keep them as their prisoner. They are known to torture their prisoner, but after some time they let it go home starved and weak.

Good VEDS come to people and help them. In the past, almost every household had its own HOUSE VED. Every house VED had its name and helped people living in the house, they were very loyal, and they have been known to hurt house VEDS from other houses. People believed that VEDS are souls of deceased great-grandfathers.