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The Pažaislis Music Festival is part of Kaunas summer: it has been held for seventeen years to promote professional music in alternative venues. Every musical feast of the Pažaislis is also a journey to the finest sites of architectural heritage in Lithuania.
Works of land art invoke ambivalent emotions. On the one hand, they remind of a visit to an art gallery – one grows curious and tries to understand and interpret favourite works. On the other hand, one might feel uneasy and timid – a sudden appearance of such works somewhere in a forest or other natural surroundings arouses a scary feeling of nature playing an odd trick. 1
Works of land art invoke ambivalent emotions. On the one hand, they remind of a visit to an art gallery – one grows curious and tries to understand and interpret favourite works. On the other hand, one might feel uneasy and timid – a sudden appearance of such works somewhere in a forest or other natural surroundings arouses a scary feeling of nature playing an odd trick.
Today Vilkija meets visitors with contrasts: a wonderful curve of river and untended riverside; towers of churches and shabby buildings; light brightness in sculptures made by wood carvers and shadows of anxiety printed on the faces of locals.
