Meduza adventures

i met this fellow when going for samples for my environmental systems lab. And found it pretty fascinating. I actually didn't know that its body is so stiff. Hm.

Other than that I'm drowning into meaningless stuff - well for me almost everything that is not art is meaningless. I soooo want to create something, yet all the tests, school work and everything just keeps me occupied all the time. And it's funny how my mood fluctuates - on Tuesday I had a few most amazing talks that I thought would keep me inspired for ages. Nah. Maybe full moon coming?

Anyways, guys, enjoy your days. Just wanted to drop a line since being silent now doesn't work.
Cannot wait till we get the darkroom ready...

strong sea lion

Strong sea lion pendant from fimo clay

Well well, Ieva is alive. I've been under this huge pile of work, it's still there, yet I can spend a minute to tell you guys what's happening with me.

So after the amazing birthday weekend I had another busy week putting my portfolio together, writing my personal statement and all these kind of things. I'm taking SATs in November, so not much of a relief after I'm done with the school work, yet it seems that at least after the UCAS deadline I'll be a bit more free. This weekend was a bit boring...next weekend is long weekend with one extra day and again I'm staying in Duino. To make my days a bit more exciting I am probably going to do some art, collaborating with one of the first year students. Artistic collaboration is the most awesome thing you can do, seriously...can't wait.

I'm also organising an art marathon at school, pretty excited for that. Other things...well, nothing new, bora blowing like crazy again and I'm sharing today's inspiration - JR, TED prize winner. Wish me luck in tomorrow's Italian presentation.

to live the poetry one cannot write

Photography: Ieva Blaževičiūtė

Model: Lucie

Lucie asked me to take pictures of her tattoo for the tattoo artist's exhibition. I don't know whether it's happening or not, when and where, but visit Ondrash's page if you want to know more about him. Hope you like the pictures too~

thank you.

I had a happy happy happy day yesterday.

Thank you all for the wishes, songs, cakes, messages and especially your presence.

Jewellery boxes

some unseen jewellery and little boxes I decorated. All available in Ameli boutique!

Last day of being 18. My roommate is already 19...she's one day older, hihi. Finally weekend as well, I think this week was the most stressful week in the college for me.

Ameli boutique

more pictures from lovely handmade goodies shop called "Ameli boutique" (Respublikos 4, Panevėžys, Lithuania). Finally got some time to go through the pictures even though they were taken more than a month ago. Since at the time my lens were broken, I used the ones I got from my dad's friend - and you can easily see the difference with the blurry parts. Love it so much, I'll buy something similar at some point in the future. Anyways, so go and visit Ameli boutique if you happen to be around! And sorry for posting only backlog pictures, yet I don't have that much from here because of all the school work. But I'll do my best though~

P.S. As some of you probably have already noticed that on your right hand side there is a new date written - I already booked my flights back home for Christmas. Excited!!!

Mercurial breaths

Photography: Ieva Blaževičiūtė

Clothes and styling: Aneta Mackonytė

Models: Eglė and Marius

more pictures from the photoshoot here

comments are very much appreaciated!

walked to October

something I drew for one of my friends in college. I never get tired of drawing these monsters.

There is an exhibition called "Blyksniai" in Panevėžys (Lithuania, my hometown) photography gallery and 5 pictures of mine from "the Portrait" photoshoot are there. Please visit~ It should be on till mid October.

Yesterday I went to this play that was performed mostly by disabled people and a lot of them I have worked with. My emotions haven't sunk inside yet, just how amazing and weird the experience was. In a good way. I really don't know how to express myself in words. But it made me think how stupid we are to limit ourselves when we can do whatever - we have the ability to do whatever and we're still full of assumptions, prejudices and other crap. Life is easy if you want it to be so.

That is also about the mood in college recently. Everyone is so stressed. WHY? Is is THAT important if you don't get into the best uni? Is it so important that you alter your health and happiness? We had an amazing talk in English class after listening to Randy Newman's songs. It's just too much pressure for us to do things that people think is the best. And that just brings us to the point where we have an army of "clever" but totally unhappy people obsessed with their own ideas and egos, whereas a normal, so called non-successful, person making spoons somewhere in a Lithuanian village is just much happier. I can't really express myself in a short text about this topic, yet I think you guys know what I mean. Chill.

I collaborated with my amazing first year Rajah and we made the cover for the address book - and it won! I'll show you the pictures of it when it's printed, for now we're thinking what other colab we could do. It's so much fun to share ideas, I missed that.

Well, time to go and do some work. My EE (Extended Essay, one of the biggest assignments we have to do during these 2 years in college) needs to be finished and I'll get back to the world of freedom and belonging, Sartre and Fromm. And thanks to Allison who made pancakes for the whole residence in the morning.