Kunstnik Kärt Summatavet rändab mütoloogilises maailmas

• Main Author: Kärt Hellerma
• Format: Article
• Language: Estonian
• Published: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum 2004-01-01
• Series: Mäetagused
• Online Access: http://www.folklore.ee/tagused/nr26/hellerma.pdf
• ISSN: 1406-992X; 1406-9938

Kärt Summatavet is a specialist in jewellery design, but has also practiced free graphic design and book design, and teaches folk art in the Estonian Academy of Arts. She knows the secret language and the archaic signs of old jewellery, and often uses these in her works. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the life cycles of women in traditional culture. Kärt Summatavet, whose jewellery and artwork feed on ancient lore and the life of women in the past, has said: "I have taken a look at the life of girls and women in order to understand who I am and what the world which I have been born to is like. I am inspired by the femininity of women in some cultures. And not in the modern sense of the word, where femininity means frailty, cunningness, spitefulness, or skilful manipulation. This is absurd." Kärt Summatavet has explained her interest in ancient cultures by saying "I look for a person. Museums and archives hold silent documents, but I enjoy watching how Anne in Setumaa strokes her ethnic brooch or how Roosi on the island of Kihnu carefully holds the handmade mittens she has woven." Jewellery and graphics form a part of her doctoral thesis. "Doctoral theses in creative arts were introduced in Scandinavia and elsewhere only some 7-8 years ago. An artist, a creative person, can use his or her own media, and get the academic degree while advancing in creative arts," Summatavet explains.