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Graffiti in Tartu 03
2014-05-31
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
"Kannahabe ja nõiakütt" by Edward von Lõngus, drawn on the wall of an adjunct building to Lossi 36 house on Toomemäe hill in Tartu, Estonia. It is located next to Supreme Court of Estonia.
("Kannahabe" being a portmanteau of kannabis+habe, lit. transl. cannabis+beard)
In the image, the title of which directly translates to "Cannabeard and witch-hunter", the policeman with the name tag "Witch Hunter" handcuffs Sammalhabe (engl. "Mossbeard"), out of whose beard grow cannabis plants. Sammalhabe is a major character from the works of an Estonian children's author Eno Raud; in his books, Mossbeard's beard instead consists of soft moss, within which grow red lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
In 2014, graffiti artist Edward von Lõngus received the Tartu City Culture Award for this work.
