On occasion of his participation in the exhibition, Mykolas Valantinas makes works that started from his obsession with a folk artist Mečislovas Ežerskis, since over many years of visits he has acquired a documentary archive of woodcarver's life and work. Mečislovas has transformed his home in Kelmė into a museum for his almost four thousand unique walking canes that he carved throughout his life. In these anamorphic sticks which would be categorized both as prostheses and tools, as art objects and folk artifacts, Mečislovas blends pagan symbolism with intuitive vernacular creativity. While seeing no difference between carving a devil and a fork, the innate sensitivity of his craft invokes portals, thin places amongst the density of the recycling site. Mykolas, on the other hand, explores the nature of this connection which fluctuates between fascination, collaboration and interpretation.

He uses photographic archives of sentimental value stitching them with supporting structures and placing photographs alongside Mečislovas' works in various containers and material environments. The relationship of a young artist trained in a contemporary art institution with an older generation self-taught artisan is at once a history of miscommunication-and communications, also - a story of a shy friendship and lessons in trust.