Hello!

My name is Uku Hain, in the future Uku Merkuri, a 25-year-old from a small village in Estonia.

Long story short – on an entirely ordinary workday, something completely unexpected happened. Suddenly – as if the entire world of Uku Merkuri’s art had been uploaded into my head at once – the thought came to me that I had to start creating art. Every idea and thought came in a second, every last detail – how to create, how often to create, what the world and story of these works would be… it was completely weird and strange!

From that moment on, I knew for certain that I would dedicate my life to creating art. I create only one artwork per year. If the piece doesn’t find a buyer, I destroy it and start anew. You decide the fate of the artwork – whether it lives on or disappears. And even if no one buys my works, that’s somehow fine with me, because the idea of creating something throughout life and then destroying it is uniquely fascinating to me.

Maybe I’m just going nuts and I fully understand if all of this sounds unbelievable or even ridiculous. Probably, if someone told me this, I wouldn’t believe them either – but I am telling the truth.

This is my artistic manifesto – I hope you enjoy it.