Aether by Erika Vaitkutė

By (author): Erika Vaitkutė

Title: Aether

Subtitle: a silent movie

Blurb/Shorttext:

To create is to remember. To see is to feel. To photograph is to belong—deeply, momentarily, eternally. This book unfolds as a philosophical meditation on presence, memory, and the metaphysical resonance of visual language. Through the practice of self-portraiture, it interrogates the notion of temporal anchoring—treating the present not as a transient instant, but as a site of layered consciousness, where perception, history, and identity converge. Photography here is reconceived as a sanctuary of thought—a spatial-temporal threshold where the material and immaterial meet, where light becomes a medium not merely of visibility, but of remembrance. Each image operates as a visual palimpsest, gesturing toward histories both collective and intimate, articulated not through narrative, but through silence, trace, and suggestion. Art is positioned as a mnemonic architecture—a structure capable of housing the enduring and the ephemeral alike. It does not merely reflect reality but reconfigures it, proposing that meaning arises not from the relentless production of novelty, but from the attentive reimagining of what already is. In this context, creativity becomes an act of philosophical excavation: a recovery of latent value through deliberate seeing.Objects and gestures, stripped of utilitarian function, become vessels of affect and memory. Their significance lies not in possession, but in evocation—what they summon, recall, or awaken in the observer. Through photographic inscription, these fragments transcend chronology and assume a timeless condition, not deferred, but enacted within the present. The images assembled here function as thresholds—simultaneously mirrors and portals. They invite contemplation of the seen and unseen, the forgotten and the imagined. Within them resides an argument for art as ontology: a way of being, perceiving, and remembering. Let there be enigma. Let there be resonance. Let there be art. 

ISBN: 978-87-7620-556-0

Book language: English

Publishing house: Snap Collective

Website: www.snap-collective.com

Editorial Assistant: Valentina Furtuna

Designer: Tea Jagodic

Published on: in production

Category: Art

Price (€): 129

Keywords: art, creation, photography, enigma, light, self-portraiture, presence, moments