As I already mentioned in one of my previous blogs I went on erasmus exchange to Vilnius for one semester. After spending the first weeks as an tourist checking out all the famous places. I started to perceive Vilnius in a different way.
I am an perfectionist and I always look at details, patterns and behaviors of people. In the Netherlands I study International lifestyle studies and one of the core subjects is trend watching, we also call it ‘Coolhunting’ (hunting for cool things). ‘It’s about looking at the world around us with the aim of mapping current changes in the society and see patterns in small or big things and trying to explore the shifts in the environment.
So I started to capture Vilnius from a different perspective, in patterns, and I made a fanzine about it, with 4 different patterns.
‘‘Pattern is everywhere we go and in everything we do. We wear patterns, we walk over them, we even eat, drink and think them. From fashion and design to the natural world, look beyond the mundane forms that we see everyday to find the hidden beauty in the underlying patterns that normally pass us by’’.
1. GARAGE TOWNS
Between the grey buildings outside the Old town of Vilnius you can see hidden pieces of colors, the old ‘Garage towns’, vast Soviet designed areas for storing cars. None of the doors is identical, the doors always symbolize the other life, the other choice. Some doors can tell a lot about people and some of them don’t. It triggers your imagination, who is the owner of this door, what is behind the door?
‘‘Finding patterns can be a way to appreciate the random,
unprogrammed beauty of the world’’.
‘‘Not answerring to the newness of things but rather focusing on the chemistry between the old and the new, patternity proves there is inspiration in every corner of our surroundings’’.
2. BIRDS OF VILNIUS
These Pelicans are spread troughout the whole city, it gives you an exciting feeling to discover new pieces of the graffiti and you start wondering who is behind all this work. And what the meaning is of this work? It creates smiles on people’s face and at the same time it makes people annoyed.
3. LIETUVOUS SPAUDA
A striking phenomen in everyday street of Vilnius are little kiosks. If you are lucky you will discover the beauty of these kiosks.
‘‘There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized yet. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense what we can’t read we call gabberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables’’.
– Chuck palahnuik.
4. HUMANA
yellow,yellow,yellow
‘‘Not answering to the newness of things but rather focusing on the chemistry between the old and the new, patternity proves there is inspiration in every corner of our surroundings’’.
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