Aistė Rye Creative

What a night! I’m so grateful for everyone who joined us at for the opening of Invisible Threads: Matrilineages of Blood, Time, and Place during ! ☁️💘☁️

✨ Congratulations, ! You curated a magical group exhibit. ✨

My new piece “Somatic Memories Upon Dreams” is a dialogue with my perfectionism — a part of me shaped by anxiety, fear, and need for control — all too familiar byproducts of white supremacy culture.

Getting to know this part through image-making allowed me to heal painful gastrointestinal issues I experienced in 2025 and showed me how to slow down, listen to my body and create intuitively, rather than productively with speed and perfection. 🙅🏻‍♀️ Creating this piece was a deeply healing and liberating experience.

The tendency to be in control also feels inherited, like a coping mechanism, shaped by generations of women before me and the forced Christianization of Lithuania, my ancestral home and the last European pagan nation.

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👁️ Invisible Threads will be open through March 28! If you didn’t get to see the group exhibit last weekend, come check it out for the next on March 14.

So happy to join ! This is such a sweet, cozy space beaming with creative energy. ✨ Looking forward to more dreaming, exploring, and creating here. ☁️🐍☁️