Meditations

May two fields be bridged by a stile
And two hearts by the tilting footbridge of a glance.
— A. Oswald, “Hymn to Iris”
 
Whether knowing the origin of the work facilitates understanding of its essence or not, it should be noted that Jurgita, while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, explored deeper the Japanese Zen aesthetics. So it is not surprising that the idea of Zen liberation from the subject, is an axis of Jurgita’s intellectual and aesthetic context, in the “Meditations” series is revealed as an already fully formed world in this place of the game of hide-and-seek – Vilnius.

In “Equinox Moon” (a splendid picture that most clearly reveals Jurgita’s aesthetic strategy), we see an unnatural moon hanging above the city, which deforms and transforms the space, is inserted as a “body for a body’s sake” and becomes objet d’art.
— Rio Kojima, Professor of History, Chubu University, Aichi, Japan, "Jurgita Gerlikaite’s world of meditations", 2008.
 

“Equinox Moon” in the interior.