Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / AUGUST 2022<br />
Vasarė Krugždaitė<br />
Lithuania<br />
vasarekru.weebly.com<br />
About<br />
I am a visual artist and graphic designer from Lithuania,<br />
currently living in Vilnius.<br />
I create works using various disciplines - cyanotype,<br />
tradicional graphic, digital drawing, drawing with fel-tip<br />
pens, using watercolor, working with instalations.<br />
I love exploring the nature and working in it. During this<br />
precious little time I live, through nature I have been exploring<br />
medicine, microbiology, micology and geology as a creative<br />
material. Nature encouraged me to jump into different<br />
scientific fields, through which I can find connections<br />
between nature and human beings. With my works I seek to<br />
reveal new forms of nature’s beauty and the depth of things,<br />
that seem very simple for us sometimes.<br />
Got stuck between fungi and boulders<br />
During the residency I was exploring mushrooms, stones,<br />
boulders, forests. I was able to become an observer of<br />
myself and see how artworks lied down on a paper while I<br />
was drawing, making watercolor or cyanotype. The time and<br />
space changed for a month - I was able to create my rules.<br />
I was creating maps of the forest, of rhythm of the stones..<br />
One time I was walking in the forest, drawing a map and<br />
honestly trying to understand where to make another few<br />
lines for a correct path in a map drawing... Next time this<br />
map led me away to unexpected places, so apparently the<br />
map wasn’t that realistic and I couldn’t go where I planned.<br />
Does my imagination lead me where I should be or should I<br />
be nervous that I didn’t reach the exact place in a map? Does<br />
my mind show me fictional world which sometimes I should<br />
follow? That sounds attractive...<br />
I started to make spores prints, and tried to recognise as<br />
many mushrooms as possible. Stones and boulders is the<br />
material which let me dig in tutorial textbooks about geology<br />
and mythology of Lithuania and Finland. It’s interesting to<br />
know that we have a lot in common from a long time ago and<br />
that the beautiful and meaningful ground under our feet is<br />
holding us still. I am trying to show and express why stones<br />
are charming in as much ways as possible. Even though I<br />
don’t have enough objective arguments to prove, I just feel<br />
so....
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