Page 201 - "he 2020 Guggenheim issue of World of Art Contemporary Art Magazine

An attempt was made to brutally trample Lithuania, but
it still broke through. Freedom is both a symbol and a
condition of creativity. Neither in prisons nor in the camps
has anyone been able to break the spirit of the Creator, even
though millions have been physically destroyed.

The solitary but completely free flight of the creator, like
Jonathan Livingston’s Great Seagull, concentrates the whole
essence of creation.

By creating two installations in the museum of the famous
Lithuanian poet Maironis - in the places where his parents’
house stood – the Soviet regime destroyed nearly everything
but a few cornerstones – I wanted to express my position as
an artist - to feel and experience both - the cozy beauty of
the places where the great poet was born and lived and the
dramatic brutality and injustice of all that had happened to him.

Open rusting metal surfaces, sharp structural peaks and
peaceful greenery of nature, changing colors with the
arrival of autumn or adapting to the whiteness of winter
and later regaining the freshness of spring again - are a
symbol and hope of re-emerging life and the victory of
the creative genius.

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