According to her mother, Nanda was “born soon enough to get a taste of the Soviet Union, but late enough to not be brainwashed by it”. Nanda found a passion for music in her early childhood, and she discovered the power of words through Latvian poets who rebelled against communism in the 80s. She’s fluent in five languages and holds arts degrees from Latvia, France and the Netherlands. She writes and illustrates poems as @littlequibbles and previously used to work with her former partner in the Neon & Landa art duo, creating poetic, organic sound and light installations. Regardless of the season, Nanda loves eating jam straight from the jar.
Nine months after she was conceived as a way to contribute to population growth, just like every other Soviet kid, Kommunalka Child was harvested from a cabbage patch. She was brought up in a bilingual family in a communal apartment in Riga. As she was searching for a place in the world, the Soviet ...
