Folk artist Titas Milašius, originally from Salakas (Zarasai district), began constructing crosses at a ripe old age. Inspiration came after a pilgrimage to Israel, when he remembered a promise he had made as a child in exile in Krasnoyarsk – to create a cross based on a photograph he had seen in a Lithuanian magazine in 1934.
The technique of assembling wood particles into "knots" learned in Siberia allowed for the creation of delicate crosses without glue or nails, the thorns of which symbolize not only Christ's crown of thorns, but also the difficult life of the exiles.
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