dialogas
with this one, the name came years after the artwork. i rediscovered it when i visited my mom’s home. i sort of forgot about it for a long time.
during the time when this was made, i was living in the netherlands, but i had come to lithuania to visit family. i painted it when i found some free time and leftover art supplies in my childhood bedroom.
while tunneled ears became my go-to gradually, i feel like third eyes was a concept innate to my artstyle since the beginning. as a teenager i tended to make even more metaphysical art than now. it was all aliens and galaxies and spiritual concepts. it’s grown more grounded now. ‘dialogas’ is a meeting point between the spiritual and the grounded. literally a dialogue.
and yes, this artwork was probably also about closeness, or the lack of it, that i felt during that time, despite being in a relationship.
i’m a big fan of layering meanings. perhaps one day i’ll paint something unambiguous. when something comes us that must be said without interpretation. i don’t think that’s happened yet though, as i’ve long since felt unfazed by the potential to be misunderstood and misinterpreted.
but anyway.
eyes are a dominant thing in my art—evidently. recently i’ve been getting comments from people who think it’s a symptom rather than an artistic or symbolic choice. but that might just be brainrot adjacent tiktok discourse.