The Quiet Rituals of Silva Eher Born in Tallinn in 1954, Silva Eher moved through the creative landscape of Estonia with a singular, focused intent. Her early years were defined by the technical discipline of animation, working as an artist-copyist for Eesti Telefilm and later as a painter for Tallinfilm. These formative years in the animation studios provided a foundation of precision that would later inform her more expansive, surrealist canvases. By 1989, she had transitioned into the life of a freelance artist, a move that allowed her to fully inhabit the private, mystical realms that wou…