Gundega Skirta is a Latvian artist based in Belgium, where she has lived for the past seventeen years. Her practice is shaped by experiences of political and social transformation following the collapse of the Soviet Union, alongside a deep connection to nature, seasonal rhythms, and enduring pagan traditions. Working with drawing, textiles, and mixed media, she explores relationships between the material and the spiritual, the personal and the collective. During the residency, she will develop Everyday Signs and Symbols as a research project examining how meaning emerges through ordinary encounters and how symbolic perception shapes the way we interpret the world. Through walking, observing, and collecting images, sounds, and experiences, and informed by mythology, ethnography, and practices of symbolic interpretation and divination, she will build an evolving archive of fragments—chance discoveries, daily rituals, dreams, and recurring patterns. The research is guided by an interest in how we might be entangled with invisible or universal forces—individually, collectively, and ancestrally—and asks how such connections can be sensed, interpreted, and expressed through a contemporary symbolic language and emergent mythologies.