Art

The flowering fence symbolizes Lithuanian folk saying „fences start flowering in a native country“. It is a distinct reaction to the consequences of the pandemic leading to inability to return to a native country and remain missing one‘s homes and close people. An architectural barrier is a fence. It a window to other people living somewhere else while the flowering of the fence is the expression of nostalgija reflecting the feelings of people who are unable to return home.

The motive of Greece pantheon gives the feeling of strength and stability to this wall, especially it is symbolic during the world pandemic giving a chance to travel but only in everyone‘s mind. Take a bag and come here with your family, friends or relatives, have a picnic and feel yourself as if you were in majestic Greece.

The snake of doughnuts crawled even 7195 km from Cleveland, Ohio city (USA). In this way it connected Marijampole with the native country of the artists. Doughnuts reflect the patterns of the snake skin and perfectly flow into the indstrial life of the town because of locally made and worldwide known doughnuts. The artists hope that everyone after having seen this painting, will smile, buy a doughnut and that will brighten his/her day. According to the artists, the mission of the doughnut snake is to make everyone smile and feel happy after seeing it.

Sometimes people behave like cats which attentively watch their prey and wait for its fatal mistake in order to attack and eat it. People also wait for other people‘s decline with the intention to attack them, condemn them. The picture depicts the eyes of the cat which symbolize the behaviour and reflection of people who scored high in their lives but once they stumbled.

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Ray Bartkus creates surreal distorted reality by adding painted stairways and other spatial architectural elements to the existing stairway and the wall. The artist questions the perception of reality. Mental imagery and visualization can alter how we perceive the world around us. To a large extent, the mind creates reality.

Famous Belgium surrealist Rene Magritte made a drawing of his pipe and wrote the title "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe) below the image. He wanted to emphasize that the viewer is seeing not a real pipe, just a painted illusion created on the paper. Ray Barkus turns this logic upside down. By painting the sky on the wall and naming it "Ceci n'est pas un mur " (This is not a wall), he claims that the imagination is capable of creating a new reality.

The mural Crowd Surfing references an animation work I made. In making animation I am always thinking about how movements are made. I began to trace the paper puppets to study the movements of the puppets and the drawings resemble the drawing you see in this mural. When people are crowd surfing they pop up from the crowd and are carried by the crowd and fall back into the crowd. Their movement in the crowd and being carried by the crowd is a metaphor for aspects of our life as social beings.

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