“Flower Power” (Rändlilled) was textile graffiti on the bars in front of the windows of the Veriora train station building, where we installed patterns from embroideries by women and girls deported to Siberia.
 
With the flowers embroidered between the bars, we directed attention towards the fact that it is possible to set up a functioning home in places where it may seem impossible. Nature, landscapes, lush vegetation and especially flowers are of great significance in the memories of those deported to Siberia. They speak of fields of peonies, tussocks of irises, black tulips and, of course, of lyutiks (buttercups). Handicraft helped maintain an inner sense of home amid difficult circumstances and were important goods that were traded for food.
 
The deportation train left Veriora on 27 March 1949 with 940 people, of whom 444 were women and 282 children. The 5,000-kilometre journey that started in Veriora ended on 5 April at the Chany and Kainsk-Barabinskiy train stations in Novosibirsk Oblast.
 
Our programme included hanging a sign bearing the name “Barabinsk” on the Veriora train station building and planting a Novosibirsk bird cherry tree next to the youth centre in Veriora.