Kristina Ališauskaitė-Volungevičė's work purposefully takes the opposite side of the Greek Thales. She sees and shows us reality primarily as water. The water she depicts is not the everyday water piped into our apartments, used for cooking, washing dishes or washing clothes. Nor is it the 'natural' surface of a lake barely stirred by ripples, or even the invisible vastness of the ocean, where powerful waves rise and dissipate again without leaving a trace. The water in these paintings is the very dynamics of reality itself, the moment as eternity, Being itself as Event. The fountains depicted in the paintings are not the product of technology. The occasional allusions to the human hand - the outline of the polygonal pool - is an illusion: in the foreground it disappears to reveal the abyss below the surface. Everything that seems solid, firm, that - like faces or hands - should be a guarantee of recognition, of certainty, turns out to be porous, spongy, fragile, and can only be recovered by immersing oneself in the primordiality of water. Water whose splashes create the glowing diversity of our world".