EXPLORING FRAGMENTED REALITY

Size 100 x 100 cm

Year 2022

Material Acrylics and aerosol on canvas

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 us at hello@kartugallery.com before purchasing if you prefer other options.

Statement from the artist:

It was a quite warm summer day and I took my bike to go to the nearby forest to sketch. It was like seven kilometres from where I then lived, from my hometown in Lithuania, Griskabudis. 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 Klaipeda 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.