On 28 August 2019, a massive icebreaking gas condensate tanker finally set sail from Helsinki shipyard Arctech. Its first course was set to Ust Luga, Russia, and then to Yama Peninsula, which holds Russia’s biggest natural gas reserves. Gazprom, the oil company giant which owns reserves in the region proudly announces on their website to produce 360 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

During the time life was altered by the pandemic, I think about roots and routes.

Home, comfort, food, touch, care, freedom, earth. These are some of the words that I can immediately associate with ‘roots’ and ‘routes’, coincident with life at the moment. I am one of the people who have left their ‘home’ in pursuit of dreams, careers and curiosity.