“In January, 2020 I was off to Tokyo. The plane flies over Russia and I saw some long straight roads through coniferous forest down below. Then I thought to myself that it might have been one of those roads in which Grushenka (a character from ” The Karamazov Brothers “) was travelling to the east of Russia after her lover was convicted and sent to Syberia.

The title refers to the traces of the carving knife on the wooden board as in trenches made in the ground by a plough.”