In early July I had a chance to visit once again the countryside of North Russia in the Arkhangelsk region. This time I was there for the festival of arts and handicrafts called KenArt (akin to Kenozero National Park and Art). It was a colourful event with lots of participants and volunteers from a number of countries. The idea of the festival was to create objects of land-art and wooden sculptures to be placed in the landscape. These were nicely made and some of them were true masterpieces, but honestly, they looked very controversial in the calm landscape. Controversial in the sense they did not suite there. While the local people were the real ones. Those who belong to the landscape. Needless to say, most of the time I chased local characters with my camera.
