It was a quite warm summer day and I took my bike to go to the nearby forest to sketch. It was like seven kilometers from where I then lived, from my hometown in Lithuania, Griškabūdis. I made a couple sketches in my sketchbook with pencil. From beginning to the end it took me almost two years to finish this painting. I finished it as I later was having art residency in Klaipėda Culture and Communication Center (KKKC)
First it was all about he floating figure. Above the earth. Just.a strange creature. Maybe that's how the angels looks like, who knows, they are kinda scary as the Book says. Maybe it's my take on an angel. Or it is an auto-portrait. The head of the creature has a light attached to it. It's like a "cyclope" light, the one I use when tattooing. So this creature floats above the ground. It could be a rooftop with three holes. Most important is not to fall into those holes. You know that octopuses are very smart, right? Like in each tentacle it has individual brains. “Octopuses' sucker-covered arms can act as if they contain partly independent mini brains. Each arm gathers sensory information to drive its own movements—and even those of other arms—without consulting major brain regions.”, as https://www.scientificamerican.com/ article states. This painting was all about this floating creature with the tentacles. And then I felt like it is too obvious, everything is too much in your face, so to say. So I painted over the most parts. Was thinking about the glass and the mirror, how it shattered, and we can’t see the full view anymore. So it is with this painting. Now we can only see in part. And we don’t know what is going on. It’s a fragmented reality in the image that is being presented. We have to figure it out. As if it was not complicated already. But the woman, or the feminine octopus lady, as you prefer, wants to find the way out. Away from the deadly holes. She’s seeking. Looking where to go with her flashlight, with her cyclope lamp. I hope she will succeed.
First it was all about he floating figure. Above the earth. Just.a strange creature. Maybe that's how the angels looks like, who knows, they are kinda scary as the Book says. Maybe it's my take on an angel. Or it is an auto-portrait. The head of the creature has a light attached to it. It's like a "cyclope" light, the one I use when tattooing. So this creature floats above the ground. It could be a rooftop with three holes. Most important is not to fall into those holes. You know that octopuses are very smart, right? Like in each tentacle it has individual brains. “Octopuses' sucker-covered arms can act as if they contain partly independent mini brains. Each arm gathers sensory information to drive its own movements—and even those of other arms—without consulting major brain regions.”, as https://www.scientificamerican.com/ article states. This painting was all about this floating creature with the tentacles. And then I felt like it is too obvious, everything is too much in your face, so to say. So I painted over the most parts. Was thinking about the glass and the mirror, how it shattered, and we can’t see the full view anymore. So it is with this painting. Now we can only see in part. And we don’t know what is going on. It’s a fragmented reality in the image that is being presented. We have to figure it out. As if it was not complicated already. But the woman, or the feminine octopus lady, as you prefer, wants to find the way out. Away from the deadly holes. She’s seeking. Looking where to go with her flashlight, with her cyclope lamp. I hope she will succeed.
The first sketch of this painting I made in the forest. 2021
I finished this painting while I was at KKKC art residency in Klaipėda, Lithuania. 2022
I was performing surrounded by my paintings @ "Pagaugai", event by Solo Ansamblis. I was "voicing out" my paintings. Vilnius, Lithuania. 2022
I was performing surrounded by my paintings @ "Pagaugai", event by Solo Ansamblis. I was "voicing out" my paintings. Vilnius, Lithuania. 2022
"Races with the Cyborgs" exhibition, Lithuania, 2022
"Races with the Cyborgs" exhibition opening. Šakiai Mayor and municipality workers came to congratulate, as well as fellow artists and others.
"Races with the Cyborgs" exhibition opening. Grikabūdis, Lithuania. 2022
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Press this photo and hear the song we created with Michael Cashmore. I wrote the lyrics. Here we are before our concert at "Wave Gothic Treffen" in 2019. This song encompases pretty well the concept of the screens, distorted understanding, and fear that unknown brings.
EXPLORING THE FRAGMENTED REALITY
Canvas, acrylic and aerosol paint
100 x 100 cm
2022
6500 EUR
Size: 100 X 100 cm
Medium: acrylic and spray paints on canvas • stretched
Year: 2022
This one-of-a-kind original acrylic painting on canvas, signed on the back and also comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Painting will be sent in the box, not framed. Please contact me before purchasing if you prefer other option.
Please allow 7 business days for your order to be processed.
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] for more info if needed.
Medium: acrylic and spray paints on canvas • stretched
Year: 2022
This one-of-a-kind original acrylic painting on canvas, signed on the back and also comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Painting will be sent in the box, not framed. Please contact me before purchasing if you prefer other option.
Please allow 7 business days for your order to be processed.
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] for more info if needed.