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SMOKE by Kris Ldi

SMOKE by Kris Ldi

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Kris LdiStumpenWhen the most beautiful cows of the Appenzell villages are crowned in autumn, smoke rises over the festival grounds. On this day, childrenoften still...

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Kris Ldi

Stumpen

When the most beautiful cows of the Appenzell villages are crowned in autumn, smoke rises over the festival grounds. On this day, childrenoften still in their early single-digit yearspuff unabashedly on Krumme cigars, or Stumpen as they are known locally, emblematic representatives of Swiss tobacco culture. They do so not in secret or as an act of rebellion, but in the midst of the village community, which not only tolerates the tradition but is also the very source of it. It is a gesture of acknowledgment for the children who take on agricultural work and responsibilities from an early age.

With his work Smoke, artist Kris Ldi approaches the custom from a place of personal memory. As a child, Ldi spent his summers with his grandparents in Appenzell and encountered the local children with the intimidated gaze of an outsider of the same age. Their nonchalant,

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