Travel North is a photographic series that began in 2017, using a special edition of expired color film produced in the USSR to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. The film, manufactured in 1969, carries with it the chemical imprint of a different era—its imperfections and tonal shifts over the years - mirroring the instability and tension of historical memory.

This series is rooted in a reflection on Lithuanian geopolitical anxieties, particularly those of the 1930s, when the country was grappling with mass emigration and the looming threat of occupation—either by Nazi Germany from the West or the Soviet Union from the East. In response to these pressures, Lithuanian geographer Kazys Pakštas proposed a radical idea: to safeguard the nation’s cultural identity by establishing a Lithuanian colony overseas, in America, Canada, or even Africa. He also envisioned the creation of a Baltic–Scandinavian confederation—a political and cultural alliance intended to resist external domination and ensure regional autonomy.

In Travel North, the camera turns toward the Vilnius train station—a liminal space of departure and arrival, exile and return. By facing north, the lens symbolically engages with Pakštas’s speculative geography and reflects on the psychological and physical displacements of the past and present. The series becomes a reflection on imagined futures, lost utopias, and the fragile resilience of identity.