"At the beginning, I was interested in and collected 'real' shards. The more historically valuable ones are numbered and with data as far as it was possible to identify. But then I started to decorate the sherds, which turned out to be a very fun job, when you start to see each one as a miniature - a different and often very interesting shape. Decorating shards is a very absurd job, but apparently it's also very addictive and liberating. And yet, scraps are a process of decay, or perhaps more accurately, some other phase of the existence of human creations, when they lose their function and former meaning. Thinking about the commonality between the disappearance of the objects of civilisation and the disappearance of natural creatures, the second part of the exhibition - the nocturnal butterflies - also emerged. This is an old theme of mine that keeps coming back in one form or another. Here, the moths are disintegrated, decayed, but still "whimsical and fantastic" like those scraps. In Christian iconography, the butterfly symbolises resurrection and immortality, and the butterfly's life cycle, which consists of three stages of life, represents life, death and resurrection. Moreover, the butterfly is a work of extraordinary beauty on one side and a hideous hairy monster on the other. So it's a capacious and very contradictory image." (Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė) The Arka Gallery (Aušros vartų st. 7, Vilnius) will be open until 15 December.