18 reincarnated fathersHow it began
This project started from something deeply personal.
I took a small sample of soil from where my father is buried.
With the help of scientists, we cultivated what was living there—
tiny organisms, growing in silence.
It was my way of asking:
can you bring someone back? If yes, what returns exactly?
This first gesture became the seed for something larger.
A space to explore grief, reincarnation, and invisible dialogues—
between life and death, memory and matter.
Project coming soon
Current co - authors: scientists from Natures Research Centre Laboratory of Biodeterioration:
Algimantas Paskevicius and Danguole Bridziuviene
Artist Petras Saulenas
Process of constant metamorphosis. First reincarnation - my reunion with father after 14 years, 2022. 
Translating nature. Spontaneous calligraphy in Petri dish - letter T appeared. Father in Lithuanian starts with letter T (Tevas).
Father as bacteria and fungi, fungi and bacteria as father. Shot on 4x5 large format camera slides through microscope - 2022 
Father as father 197(?) and one for comparison (son part being me) on the right: pareidolia of bacteria or is it my reincarnated father with a big brain?As in heaven so on earth. Microorganisms create living landscapes, structures which resemble web of galaxies. Nature performing never ending Sufi dance of metamorphosis (goes nicely with Jóhann Jóhannssons Drone Mass).Each Petri dish as a planet in cosmos. Couple of examples how nutrient medium becomes something spontaneously magnificent.
We need to talk about how reincarnated will die again. Dried up Petri dishes.