Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga

Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine
Involuntary Memory: The Proletarian Districts of Riga - Stanislavs Olehno - Phases Magazine

It’s morning, I’m perched on a damp log watching the lake. A man approaches, and asks me to fill the bottle he holds with water up to ‘here’, he shows me. His hands are too shaky to do that by himself. I help him, he then pours some Ethanol into the water, to celebrate his birthday. I take the tram, get caught without a ticket and it’s a miracle how I escape a fine by just walking away…