APPIAS

Project: The Time Series
Format: Polyptych compositions
Medium: Carbon monotype
Year: 2020

Origin: Mark Rothko Art Centre residency, Daugavpils, Latvia
Support: Lithuanian Council for Culture (State Scholarship)

Time is made of fragments; it falls apart and gathers again in new constellations. It forms memory. It passes, it slips away, it returns. Nothing holds in place. Some fragments vanish, others take their place, and yet they continue to accumulate — you see the image, you recall moments, and when memory loosens its grip, the fragments dissolve, and those moments disappear with them.

Overview

The Time is a series of works developed in 2020, marking a shift from single images to multi-part compositions and larger formats. Built through carbon monotype, the series unfolds across diptychs, triptychs, and extended structures, where each work is constructed as a composition spanning multiple panels.

Origin

The project began during an artist residency at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia. Located within a former military fortress, the site is surrounded by abandoned and partially preserved buildings, where traces of past use remain visible in their gradual decay. This environment shaped the direction of the work and led to the creation of the first piece — a triptych titled The Time.

The triptych established a new working approach: the image no longer remained confined to a single surface, but was developed across multiple parts as a continuous structure. The work entered the Rothko Art Centre collection and became the starting point for the series.

Shift to Series and Scale

Following the residency, I was awarded a state scholarship from the Lithuanian Council for Culture, which enabled a continuous period of focused work over the course of a year. This support allowed the series to develop beyond a single work and take form as an extended body of pieces.

I moved into a larger studio space and continued working in isolation, expanding the format into a system of polyptychs. The work developed through sustained repetition and variation, where each piece contributed to a broader visual structure.

During this period, the conditions of limited movement and reduced interaction created a concentrated working environment. The practice shifted towards scale, continuity, and accumulation, allowing the image to unfold across multiple surfaces and durations.

Time as Structure

The series is developed through carbon monotype, where images emerge from collected textures and material traces. Forms are assembled across multiple panels, combining elements that do not belong to a single natural structure.

This method allows the image to function as a constructed organism, where internal coherence is built through the relation between parts rather than through direct representation. Each work operates as a composition of interconnected elements that remain open and adjustable within the structure.

Within the series, time appears as a condition of change and reconfiguration. Forms shift across panels, repeating, transforming, and reappearing in different states. The image is not fixed but unfolds through variation, holding together as a whole while remaining internally unstable.

Development and Exhibitions

The series was first presented in virtual exhibitions during a period when physical spaces were temporarily closed. As exhibition activity resumed, the work moved into physical exhibition contexts across different countries.

Еxhibitions:

2024 The Time, Młodzieżowy Dom Kultury nr 2 “Galeria Po 111 Schodach”, Lublin, Poland
2023 Muhuversum, GÜ gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 The Time, Menu Kalve, Druskininkai, Lithuania
2021 Atlas of Forgotten Memories, Daugavpils Pottery Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2021 Year of the Bull, Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia
2021 2nd International Triennial of Graphics, virtual exhibition, Cieszyn, Poland
2021 Tactile vision, Esna Gallery, Esna, Estonia
2020 The Time, virtual exhibition, Lithuania
2020 The Phenomena of Natural Phenomena, virtual exhibition, Boston, MA, USA
2020 Humanity in Quarantine, virtual Exhibition, Washington, DC, USA
2020 Art without a Roof, virtual exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania