06/08/2025
The story behind the cover of issue no.8
“I bumped into Kemežys at the CAC – we were both working there at the time – and I said, ‘Take a photo of me.’ ‘Alright,’ he said, ‘I’ll bring the camera.’ I was sweaty, wearing a T-shirt, but I threw on a jacket. I opened Čiurlionis’ book, which has his portrait in it, and I looked at my reflection in the window of the CAC courtyard on the first floor. I asked him, ‘What do you think, does it look similar if I stand like this?’ Click. It took four takes to do it. We chose one of those photos. Others agreed it looked similar. That portrait of me ended up hanging in a winery – people would say, ‘Yeah, I know, that’s the painter, Čiurlionis.’ It’s like KFC or Che Guevara on a T-shirt, it’s like a brand – you get confused, you get mistaken,” said Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis.
Excerpt from a conversation between Asta Vaičiulytė and Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis
Photo: M.K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art, photographer Gustina Keturakytė
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This article appears in full in ESCAPE AS A JOURNAL, No. 8.
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