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Luxury Is Not What You Think
When I was a child in Lithuania, luxury looked like trifting by the kilo at Humana. A new dress felt like a miracle. If something was...
Valeria Surk
Oct 74 min read


Dior in an IKEA Bag: Lithuania’s Complicated Love Affair with Luxury
I came back to Lithuania and felt like I had walked into a showroom. Bentleys idling by Soviet-era apartment blocks, Porsches wedged into...
Valeria Surk
Sep 185 min read


I am OK
By someone who had to let it all die to finally begin I never meant to end up here. Not in Vilnius, not in the year 2025, not like this....
Valeria Surk
Jun 103 min read


How I Fell in Love with a Dead Man at the National Gallery
Before I moved to Singapore in 2021, I made a quiet pilgrimage to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It wasn’t my first time...
Valeria Surk
May 83 min read
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