The art critic Paulius Galaunė
described the Lithuanian folk pottery as follows: "Ceramics is a very old
human memorial. In the deepest and gloomiest past, in the earliest dawns of
human mind and the first separations with the features of purely wild
instincts, in the times of glazed stone, among the first hand made home fire
guns we can see ceramic pots." (P. Galaunė, The Lithuanian Folk Art,
1930).
Making my pots of clay, grinding, decorating, burning them,
I follow the old Lithuanian traditions of ceramics. Then pots were produced
for practical purposes, not for decoration.
I can't imagine Christmas Eve table, Easter breakfast or
any other festival without the old ceramic tureens, earthenware jars, nut
bowls..., which in their primitive shapes are so alike to those found in
ancient graves and hills.
I am keeping to the cold, logical, economic forms, modest
decorations with geometric and plant shapes, which have always been typical of
the Lithuanian ceramics.
My pots are burnt in a fire- wood stove, made by myself. I
have created authentic technology, which gives the ceramics silvery black
color, firmness and sound of metal.
The black ceramics is considered to be ecological.
