A Raft Named Penny
I used to work in a room filled with over twenty compasses, independently they would point towards north but together they confused each other and faced towards different directions. This fish faces towards the sea. Perhaps this is apt; entering this period of practice, this doctorate it was my intention that rather than moving from the coast, with collected material to my home or to my studio where something would happen. That during these years my making would happen by the sea. This transitioned to thinking I’d like for my practice that follows to transcend a trajectory of practice analogous to bioaccumulation or biomagnification to one more like the nitrogen cycle; defined by flowing between different locales and forms, part of greater systems and enabling these systems. So that artworks would exist as trends: transient states of doing and being. Finding myself inland, I've reversed the system. Starting with my studio; here reproduced as a stage that is a raft, perhaps a possibility emerges, one capable of moving towards an ocean.
This work was first shown in the exhibition Compo(s)t and Detritus, Vilnius Art Academy Exhibition Hall Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania, with works by Adomas Žudys, Artūras Mitinas, Eglė Kliučinskaitė, Gailė Griciūtė and Miki Ambrózy, Gediminas Viliūnas, Gerda Liudvinavičiūtė, Ieva Butkutė, Ieva Rižė, Ieva Šlaičiūnaitė, Indrė Liškauskaitė, Justė Tarvydė, Justina Semčenkaitė, Justinas Dūdėnas, Kipras Dubauskas, Marija Nemčenko, Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė, Nina Nowak, Renata Mockutė
Photo: Martyna Kairaitytė
