Gintarė Masteikaitė’s Rural Childhood Turned a Dream Into an Obsession

Gintarė Masteikaitė grew up far from the cultural world she would later enter. The culture manager said no one in her family or among her relatives had any connection with the arts.

A guest on the television show “Family Kitchen,” Masteikaitė described her childhood on an isolated farm in a large family of four children. From an early age, everyone had to help with the farm work.

As the eldest child, she also took responsibility for preparing food for her younger brothers and sister. Her account links that rural upbringing with the dream that eventually became an all-consuming pursuit.