Told in two tongues—English and Finnish—this haunting narrative unfolds in the split consciousness of those living under the weight of a gilded, watchful power. It lives in the gap between the word and its echo, the rule and its grotesque enforcement, the self you are and the self you must become to survive.
Over a decade marked by selection and silence, choices are made not in freedom, but within the stark confines of a locked room. Uniforms—blue, green, pale yellow—dictate fate, while memory clings like a ghost, and forgetting becomes an act of terrifying courage just to live another day.
Moving restlessly between languages and states of being, between cold instruction and chaotic execution, this mirrored labyrinth of a tale asks the reader to feel the chill of recognition. For the cages we build are often ornate, the selections we face are often silent, and the monsters are rarely the ones we are taught to fear.
Step into this unsettling, dual-keyed arena—if you dare to find your way back out.
Keidar Yotam is a writer and artist drawn to the fractures in language, identity, and power. Their work explores the spaces between worlds—whether linguistic, psychological, or societal—often weaving multiple languages and narrative forms to create unsettling, mirrored realities.
In Storage Tú, Yotam constructs a layered labyrinth where English and Finnish do not merely translate, but collide and converse, reflecting the fragmented consciousness of characters navigating surveillance, selection, and survival. As both the author and designer of this project, Yotam oversees a cohesive vision where text and atmosphere are inextricably linked.
Yotam’s writing is influenced by the stark traditions of folktale, gothic bureaucracy, and the chilling mechanics of systemic control. They currently live and work between worlds, both real and imagined.