"The sundew has many hair-like leaves on its stem, with droplets full of nectar at the end. Resembling morning dew, the droplets glisten in the sun and entice insects to land for a drink. However, the droplets also act as a strong glue, the insect simply sticks when it lands and is then enveloped and digested by the sundew stem. I do not have a clear relationship with the funeral customs and traditions of the last century because I was simply not alive then. I have not experienced it. I only know what I have heard from relatives, from books I have read, or from what I have been able to discern by studying family photographs documenting funeral ceremonies. It seems that the fact of death, together with the customs of burial, have been pushed out of life, mortified and concealed over time. From what I can see in the family photographs of the past, the Lithuanian funeral tradition seems beautiful and meaningful. However, I don't know what it was really like. I feel like one of the insects stuck in the nectar glue of a sunfish. With the painting series "Sunflower", I want to remember not only my own relatives, but also everyone else's, and to find a medium to talk about the funeral customs of the last century, their disappearance and importance. The title of the series of paintings becomes an illustrative link between the content in question and its meaning through pictorial aesthetics. I use this medium as a platform to beautifully express the heavy themes contained in the archive of photographs, which, like the sunflower - a small graceful plant - hides a dark and complex nature within itself. (Kristijonas Gurčinas)