The Monolith Case: Vilnius Junction

Embankment Arch by Valdas Urbanavičius. Vilnius, Lithuania.

As discussions about The Embankment Arch in Vilnius (LT) gather momentum, Echo Gone Wrong magazine publishes my reflections on the issue:
The Monolith Case: Vilnius Junction | Echo Gone Wrong.


Also, Lithuanian version of the text in Artnews.lt.

There it is — an impenetrable and enigmatic intruder, immune to a commanding recognizability of its surroundings, immune to the expectations of puzzled spectators. It is simply out there in all its presence and givenness, inviting the gaze and returning it dispassionately. By remaining opaque to all the enquiries and refusing to reveal its purpose, it somehow withdraws from an everyday arrangement of things. Even more: it withdraws from causality itself by withholding the reason of being there in the first place. Devoid of both reason and a place within the order of things, it disturbs the fabric of reality as a ‘non-thing’ — i.e., as a lack of a recognizable ‘something.’ Read on...