Povilas Šorys ANIEDU

I believe that any work of art: a single sketch or a sculpture, or a whole series of paintings
a cycle, or a lifetime's worth of songs - any story, both
visual, both aural and verbal – can be summed up in one sentence.
Therefore, I immediately want to say my sentence about the cycle "Aniedu":
The evening meal is an asset.
And that's it, simply. But of course, every sentence can be expanded backwards, into
the whole story.
I already talked about it earlier, in 2024, in the sculptural candle cycle "Anie"
winter time, when there is so much darkness, as if we were all living in a mythopoetic
Annapilis Hill. "Anie" was about the afterlife - fairies, masks, kites and all that
rural folklore – as a constantly woven multidimensional fabric of meanings from quite
simple verbal outlines. And our lives in that fabric.
It is obvious that the new series of sculptural candles "Aniedu" is based on the themes of "Anė".
continuation. However, this word, ANIEDU, also forms a very interesting
subtopic: about the archaic pair of creators – God and the Devil – and especially about the Second, number
DU, which is always the devil. Mythologist Dr. Dainius Razauskas in his lectures,
based on Gnostic writings, world cultures and Lithuanian etiological legends
material, very consistently and with good reasoning, explained how the Second Permanent
the attempt to imitate the First is not a side feature of devilish playfulness, but an essential
axis of evil, since the impersonation of God is the clearest and most obvious,
whatever separation there may be from Him.
However, the goal of both the respected mythologist and myself is not to please God or the Devil.
proving the existence of. I'm just very interested in imagining a wide range of mythopoeic meanings
fabric, woven in a simple count of DU gauge, and at the same time this weaving is
a picture of the charge of Lithuanian, rural thought. Of course, the Lithuanian rural
The mythopoetic idea is nothing more than the Goddess explored by Marija Gimbutiene
A weave of mother culture and entire Indo-European cultures, flooded with Christianity
shell. So the charge is very strong – these are the universal human archetypes of the whole world,
At the same time, these are solutions to psychological equations told in mythopoetic language.
The ANIEDU cycle, which began its visual narrative with the Devil as emptiness,
imitating God, from the way of overcoming the Devil established in mythological tales
(it disappears just as soon as it is recognized), moves towards the pre-Christian
The image of the devil, which was examined in great detail by Norbertas Vėlius. Undisputed
It is a fact that the Devil is a being much older than Christianity, and he is not the Evil One.
spirit - this is what it has become in Christianity - and God's partner, helper,
patron of animals and the dead, the entire earthly realm in general, and the patron of fertility.
The pair of God and the Devil have been working together since the creation of the world. This is the Devil
in etiological tales, they vomited up ravines, hills, swamps, and rocks. Nowadays
There has been a significant change in the perception of the value and significance of these formations for biodiversity, by the way,

as well as about the animals sculpted by the Devil (goat, toad). It is also increasingly evident
becomes a paradigm that agricultural land is not an absolutely divine sphere of life,
although this is exactly how it was perceived many centuries earlier. And if the
we would perceive the creative couple as the world's first reflection of a person's inner world,
it is God and the Devil, which can be the Freudian id and superego or the Gestalt
The Top Dog and Underdog prototypes are not good and evil, but simply different experiences,
the totality of the needs of the body and spirit.
So this fabric of thoughts is woven from a single number. This
weaving activities are impossible during the summer period when the world is full of
natural life (kupinas – kupa – Dome). And only when bodily life naturally
extinguished at the end of autumn, when the nights lengthen and the constellations of the sky and graves shine, only
then the fabric of the world begins to be painstakingly woven by the wefts of thoughts, from simple words
draft.