The painting depicts lush, chaotically entangled plants with goldrings placed on them. The situation is constructed by using the contrast principle favoured by the artist: dynamic, live and expressive forms of the plant branches and leaves are opposed to the precise and rational roundness of the rings. The painted image is both realistic and surreal. In this way Ališauskaitėestablishes and immediately crosses the boundaries between nature and culture, irrationality and rationality, mind and feeling, fiction and reality.

Kristina Ališauskaitė is an artist from Lithuania. In 2009, Kristina completed MA painting studies in Vilnius Academy of Arts. After the studies she was awarded a „Young artist‘s“ public prize in the contest of the Baltic states (2013). In 2014 she was granted an individual scholarship of the Ministry of Culture. Since 2015 she has been a member of Lithuanian Artists‘ Association.

Kristina uses her personal experiences as material for analyses of universal states. Although she doesn‘t use traditional archetypal imagery, an analogous result is achieved – it invokes collective unconscious. By depersonalizing, levelling, fragmenting the characters she refines a state, an experience, a psychological situation as such and turns it / them into the main character. Memory becomes a significant thematic axis – the power of fuzzy remembrances to influence the present and the future.