Dawn of the Baltic Sea

Name: Dawn of the Baltic Sea

Size: 60cm*80cm

(Painted by Tu Lin in 2024 in Munich)

I was on a cruise ship traveling from Helsinki to Tallinn in January 2024. The first time I traveled on the Baltic Sea on a big cruise ship with ten floors. Everything was amazing for me. It was dark, windy, and minus-zero outside the cruise ship, but that didn't make me lose my enthusiasm to go out and get close to the sea. I stood on the deck and looked ahead, it was too dark for me to see, the wind was blowing so hard that I couldn't open my eyes, but I could strongly feel that the Baltic wind wanted to take me with it, I was going to be carried away by the wind! No I still want to take a big breath, I want to fill my lungs with the flavor of the Baltic Sea.

It was too cold, cold enough to sink me. I stared at the sea and wandered, the ocean was so peaceful and serene. Suddenly I felt like I saw a whale, or maybe I imagined a whale, because I wished there was one. It was moving along with the cruise ship, it was singing, it was spouting water, it was saying hello to me! Oh there was an elephant coming, galloping through the sea, dancing with the whales, how happy and free it was. The ethereal blue made the whole atmosphere even more ambiguous. But I forget that I can't swim yet.

At that moment the cruise ship's whistle sounded and Tallinn arrived.

(Written by Tu Lin)