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Writer Rugilė Audenienė: “Ideal for my Christmas is that simple speech from my heart”
– How are you going to celebrate Christmas this year?
– Our family celebrations were generally on the way. We drove to Biržai where my parents, we got ready for Christmas Eve, we traveled to church on Christmas morning or without snow, we greet our relatives, we sat at the table, we arrived at the birthplace of the man, the Second Barn, the same day, where a large family met. During those days we tried to visit the closest ones, of course we never had time. And now we can all meet everywhere through buzz, vaiber and messenger.
We rehearse such a scenario during Easter, when the two of us sat at a table with my husband in Vilnius and “traveled” to the guests. I also expect the same at Christmas. We have something to celebrate, we are healthy. And it still involves pain, when I answer this question, I can’t hug my loved ones for a long time, I long for it so much. Maybe I have to take my longing to the forest, during quarantine Easter I learned to make a scrap with a splitter, now is the time to put a pot. It is always festive in the snowy forests.
– What is your ideal Christmas?
– Probably the ideals, which I wanted to slow down without trying to collect gifts, pack gifts, bake ducks, attract cookies, not fall asleep, try to guess all the family traditions with a painted eye.
I like that smell of the Christmas tree that my dad brought, mom’s cake with black currants, I like it when the whole family huddles in the kitchen making your brandwhen brother combine festive music, Grandma takes care of whether the plot is already brought, Grandpa is waiting, whether we will go to the guests, when at night my husband and I secretly wrap the gifts and destroy the tracks, when the most beautiful tablecloths are thrown in the festive morning, make beautiful selfio, when we really need to taste, we definitely need Christmas carols, weird Christmas sweaters, some memories when we make fun of our baptismal parents, because we are in a hurry on the road, only us and the radio will be there, and through the forest in the fields we reach other houses . , you have to spread the tables, even the Christmas tree sways with laughter in exchange for gifts, and then the evening, the cozy silence, and a few days of peace, nature.
My ideal Christmas is the simple speech from my heart that can tell you: take it, try a little colder, hurry, the church is asleep, where the hat goes, this year it snowed a little, I remember how today.
– What art will you use this year?
– Before these holidays, for some reason you will want to look at the pictures. Wandering through the old town, I look through the gallery windows. That I can no longer enter, I have been following all kinds of arts on Instagram for a while, such as classic art. Just what you need: snow, lights, rain, and then flashes of color. In January, I fulfilled my dream of visiting the Louvre, where I took pictures of interesting paintings, portraits, the looks of which most captivated my heart. I keep opening myself, investigating, looking for information about the author. Before the holidays, I opened a portrait of Sister Adolphine Købke by Danish painter Christen KØBKE. That girl of eighteen hundred somersaults reflects to me all the beauty and fragility of this year’s vacation. While researching live paintings in this way, I discovered the Louvre app, where you can virtually see many works, find out their titles and authors.
On Facebook, I take a look at the virtual artist work and performance account “Openings not canceled.” I like to be with the winter landscapes of Mykolė Ganusauskaitė, its calm but bright lines. I already read, but I still use the book “Drawing was like a door” from Aurimas Švedas’ conversation with artist Peter Repšis. Probably for me now, art is the door to celebration.
In December and during the holidays, we keep falling for the series, which is why Netflix has been on fire for some time. Fiction is right for me right now: The Expanse, Dark, Somewhat Ironically Absurd Teens: How to Sell Drugs Online (Quick), Interesting Stories, and Beautiful Costumes – The Queen’s Gambit. Since we had a Harry Potter movie review session before the holidays, I’m thinking about The Chronicles of Narnia – I want that fabulous world.
I read chaotically and little during quarantines, I write more and I am more in nature. I was in the middle of “Remygas” by Rimantas Kmita. I recently finished “Red Flood” by Ignas Šeinius and “An Ivan Denisovich Day” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and will probably look again for something similar, like a “survival book” about a terrible life that is still traversed by light. In the afternoon I will open a haiku, the “Open Window” by Audreolė Pivorė. We also have an evening ritual with my friends: we wrote a number and got to read Donald Kajok’s poem on the page of the book “Poetry, maybe not.” Sometimes almost a night ballad, sometimes a precise minimalist, almost a haiku. A true survival manual!
In response, I think I wasn’t ready for the book package, I wasn’t planning arts online, moving further and further away from the virtual ones eventsAlthough, of course, the paintings I study are virtual. Everyone will have already read, heard and reviewed everything before you look at the fox’s paws in the snow. And I really like that slowness!
