This artwork is made of two canvases and unfolds in the blurred space between wakefulness and dreaming. Riding public transport, the narrator begins to doze off, so the line between reality and hallucination begins to dissolve. A red umbrella becomes a bird’s beak, the sound of station announcements turns into the snake’s breath, and time itself slips.
“On the Other Side” captures this surreal threshold: confusion, instinct, interruption. The painting is paired with a poetic monologue, evoking a fevered sensory state where dream logic overrides the ordinary. By the time he wakes – it’s already too late. The stop is gone. He’s on the other side of the river.
out of the four gates
arises thunder
trembling ground quivers cabbage
carrots beans I had at lunch
a wave of dust and angst
worried voices
next… Šeimyniškių* snake
stinging toe
body frozen
cannot run or strike
a bloodstained beak
pinches her Neptune blue
wings
beating fast a sound
of awful movement hissing
ššššilas bridge*…
leaping up I kick
a red umbrella pardon pardon
excuse me missed
my stop I am
on the other side of river now
* – bus stop
50×70×2 + 18×13×2 cm
acrylic, graphite, lacquer on 2 canvases