2014. Green forest – White sea

2014 / Saulius Vaitiekūnas

Gas masks, construction assembly foam, metal, wood
Height 987 cm, length 426 cm

To commemorate the victory in Žalgiris battle / 1410/ and “Nors Stream” gas pipe building start in the Baltic sea/ 2010/

…the battle is won – the war continues…

Green forest, white sea – is a sculptural object, created to commemorate the 600 year anniversary of Žalgiris battle. However, the creation of this work was influenced not only by the jubilee year but also by the parallel of the geopolitical – cultural situation of that time and nowadays ecological, social, cultural, economic, political topicalities in Lithuania and all Baltic region.

The idea for this project originated by trying to orient in the geographical path, trying to revise directions, to contact fellow travellers…