“Touch the Feeling”

Creator: Emilija Griciūtė

Work supervisor: Dalia Laučkaitė-Jakimavičienė

Preliminary title options: “Touch the feeling”/ “With the bottom of the eye, with the tips of the fingers”

“Graduation Show” exhibition of VDA bachelor’s and master’s final works: Ceramics department, Maironio st. 6, in the gallery of the VDA outdoor expo, a series of works will be presented, in which feelings and emotions are transformed into sculptural design objects. These are unique ceramic pieces that aim to embody feelings by giving them a physical body. The creation of these objects was a real challenge – to imagine feelings, to give them form and textures that evoke a certain emotion. It perfectly responds to this year’s design week theme #Challenges. These works are colorful, their colors also have an emotional meaning, among which Viva Magenta is sought to be extracted. Magenta in general exposure is intended to express the emotion of anger and emphasize its vigor, strength and power.

Feelings are an uncontrollable phenomenon that all people feel. But can a certain shape or texture evoke a corresponding feeling in us? By creating this work, my aim is to find out exactly that. In these characteristic objects, tactility of the works is important, because when we feel something tangible, we immediately look for some associations or analogues: what would it be like, what does it remind us of?

The exhibition of my works will contain two series of objects, each consisting of six parts: the first – of small-sized, tangible objects that fit in the palm of your hand, which should be felt by touch, with the tips of your fingers, and the second will consist of much larger-scale objects, which are symbolically in their shape and colors should stimulate our visual senses. When faced with a stimulus, the sensory organs immediately send signals to the brain, which often cause us certain associations and feelings. With these works, design objects, I invite people to look at the feeling in a slightly different way, by feeling it through the senses of sight and touch.