<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Simona Finkelstein]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simfin — art, thoughts, and the space between. Vilnius-based multidisciplinary artist.]]></description><link>https://blog.simfin.art</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wQnt!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68867a09-a3f5-4228-9c51-3bdc169f734b_1536x1536.jpeg</url><title>Simona Finkelstein</title><link>https://blog.simfin.art</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:51:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.simfin.art/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Simona Finkelstein]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[simfin@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[simfin@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Simona Finkelstein]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Simona Finkelstein]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[simfin@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[simfin@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Simona Finkelstein]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Fabric Is Never Just Fabric ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Audinys &#8211; ne tik audinys.]]></description><link>https://blog.simfin.art/p/fabric-is-never-just-fabric</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.simfin.art/p/fabric-is-never-just-fabric</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simona Finkelstein]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:39:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oape!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F693a885c-4184-402f-a787-288a86155101_1080x671.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This essay is written in both English and Lithuanian &#8212; lietuvi&#353;kas tekstas &#382;emiau.</em></p><h1>Fabric Is Never Just Fabric</h1><p>Fabric is never just fabric.</p><p>Every piece of cloth already carries a history.</p><p>It once lived a life &#8212; covered someone&#8217;s bed, warmed someone&#8217;s shoulders, touched their knees, absorbed sweat, witnessed tears of joy, heard their sorrows. Maybe it lay folded in a closet, waiting. Maybe it was loved. Maybe it was forgotten.</p><p>When I take that fabric into my hands, its story becomes part of mine.</p><p>I love touching natural materials &#8212; linen, cotton. They are part of nature, just as we are.</p><p>It all began with scraps.</p><p>Small pieces of fabric that I lay side by side, turn, cut into, stitch. Sometimes very seriously. Sometimes playfully.</p><p>And at some point, they become one.</p><p>I don&#8217;t start with a blank canvas.</p><p>I start with what was already there.</p><p>People have joined and stitched scraps together in different parts of the world.</p><p>In the Sufi tradition, wandering ascetics wore patched cloaks stitched from pieces of cloth. In Korea, women created jogakbo &#8212; patchwork made from small fabric remnants and used to wrap gifts and everyday objects.</p><p>In Lithuania, too, scraps of fabric and pieces of worn clothing were stitched together into patchwork &#8212; bedspreads, covers, objects made for everyday life.</p><p>Different countries. Different histories. And yet, in all of them, I see the same human gesture &#8212; don&#8217;t throw away. Preserve. Stitch together. Let it live on.</p><p>Patchwork doesn&#8217;t pretend to be perfect.</p><p>It remembers. It says:</p><p>here is what remained.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t hide its seams, its threads.</p><p>On the contrary &#8212; they are part of its story.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t whole, because life isn&#8217;t whole either. It is made of separate moments &#8212; beautiful, uncomfortable, funny, painful, sometimes seemingly insignificant.</p><p>But placed side by side, they don&#8217;t become chaos.</p><p>They become a map.</p><p>A map of lives already lived, holding many stories at once.</p><p>Stitched together so they can remain.</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s why, when I touch an old piece of fabric, I feel more than one life.</p><p>I feel my own, too.</p><p>Like one more patch already being stitched &#8212; through my daughters &#8212; into some future fabric of humanity that I myself will never see.</p><p>And a thought comes to me:</p><p>each of us is like a thread.</p><p>One thread alone is fragile. Easy to break.</p><p>But woven together, we become fabric.</p><p>We become stronger.</p><p>We can hold each other.</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s why fabric, for me, isn&#8217;t simply a material for making a painting.</p><p>It is a language.</p><p>The past intertwines with the present. Someone else&#8217;s story with mine. Nature with human hands. Someone&#8217;s worn shirt with my stitch. My life with the life of someone I may never meet.</p><p>And I take these fabrics &#8212; I sew, cut, talk to them, play with them, fool around.</p><p>And they live on.</p><p>They become a painting.</p><p>A painting with a language of its own. One that will someday find someone with whom it can continue the conversation.</p><p>Maybe it will bring beauty into a room. Maybe it will comfort. Maybe it will encourage someone to keep going. Maybe someone will walk past it a hundred times, and only on the hundred-and-first will they suddenly see something.</p><p>Because art has its own quiet power.</p><p>A quiet language &#8212; simply to be near.</p><p>To be.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>&#127473;&#127481; Lietuvi&#353;kai</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oape!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F693a885c-4184-402f-a787-288a86155101_1080x671.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oape!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F693a885c-4184-402f-a787-288a86155101_1080x671.png 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>Audinys &#8211; ne tik audinys</h1><p>Audinys n&#279;ra tik audinys.</p><p>Kiekvienas audinys jau turi savo istorij&#261;.</p><p>Jis ka&#382;kada gyveno gyvenim&#261; &#8212; deng&#279; ka&#382;kieno lov&#261;, &#353;ild&#279; pe&#269;ius, liet&#279; kelius, sug&#279;r&#279; prakait&#261;, mat&#279; d&#382;iaugsmo a&#353;aras, gird&#279;jo godas. Gal gul&#279;jo spintoje ir lauk&#279;. Gal buvo mylimas. Gal pamir&#353;tas.</p><p>Kai paimu t&#261; audin&#303; &#303; rankas, jo istorija tampa ir mano istorija.</p><p>Kaip gera liestis prie nat&#363;rali&#371; med&#382;iag&#371; &#8212; lino, medviln&#279;s. Jos &#8212; gamtos dalis, kaip ir mes.</p><p>Viskas prasid&#279;jo nuo skiautini&#371;.</p><p>Nuo ma&#382;&#371; audinio gabaliuk&#371;, kuriuos d&#279;lioju vien&#261; &#353;alia kito, apsuku, prakerpu, prasiuvu. Kartais labai rimtai. Kartais &#382;aisdama.</p><p>Ir ka&#382;kuri&#261; akimirk&#261; jie tampa vienu audiniu.</p><p>A&#353; nepradedu nuo tu&#353;&#269;ios drob&#279;s.</p><p>A&#353; pradedu nuo to, kas jau buvo.</p><p>&#381;mon&#279;s skiautes jung&#279; ir siuvo skirtinguose pasaulio kra&#353;tuose.</p><p>Sufij&#371; tradicijoje klajojantys asketai d&#279;v&#279;jo lopytus, i&#353; skiau&#269;i&#371; susi&#363;tus apsiaustus. Kor&#279;joje moterys k&#363;r&#279; jogakbo &#8212; i&#353; ma&#382;&#371; audinio liku&#269;i&#371; si&#363;tus skiautinius, kuriais buvo vyniojamos dovanos ir kasdieniai daiktai.</p><p>Ir Lietuvoje i&#353; audini&#371; atrai&#382;&#371; bei jau d&#279;v&#279;t&#371; drabu&#382;i&#371; buvo siuvami skiautiniai &#8212; lovaties&#279;s, u&#382;tiesalai, daiktai kasdieniam gyvenimui.</p><p>Skirtingi kra&#353;tai. Skirtingos istorijos. Ir vis d&#279;lto a&#353; juose matau t&#261; pat&#303; &#382;mogaus gest&#261; &#8212; nei&#353;mesti. I&#353;saugoti. Susi&#363;ti. Leisti gyventi toliau.</p><p>Skiautinys nepretenduoja b&#363;ti tobulu siuviniu. Jis mena, liudija:</p><p>&#353;tai kas i&#353;liko.</p><p>Jis neslepia savo si&#363;li&#371;.</p><p>Prie&#353;ingai &#8212; jos ir yra jo istorija.</p><p>Jis n&#279;ra vientisas tod&#279;l, kad ir gyvenimas n&#279;ra vientisas. Jis susideda i&#353; atskir&#371; akimirk&#371; &#8212; gra&#382;i&#371;, nepatogi&#371;, juoking&#371;, skaud&#382;i&#371;, kartais visai nereik&#353;ming&#371;. Ta&#269;iau sud&#279;tos viena &#353;alia kitos jos tampa ne chaosu.</p><p>Jos tampa &#382;em&#279;lapiu.</p><p>Buvusi&#371; gyvenim&#371; &#382;em&#279;lapiu, kuriame vienu metu telpa daugyb&#279; istorij&#371;.</p><p>Susi&#363;t&#371; kartu, kad i&#353;likt&#371;.</p><p>Gal tod&#279;l, kai lie&#269;iu sen&#261; audin&#303;, jau&#269;iu ne vien&#261; gyvenim&#261;.</p><p>Jau&#269;iu ir sav&#261;j&#303;.</p><p>Kaip dar vien&#261; skiaut&#281;, kuri per mano dukras jau dabar siuvama &#303; ka&#382;kok&#303; b&#363;sim&#261; &#382;monijos audin&#303;, kurio a&#353; pati niekada nepamatysiu.</p><p>Ir &#269;ia man ateina mintis:</p><p>kiekvienas i&#353; m&#363;s&#371; esame tarsi si&#363;las.</p><p>Vienas si&#363;las trapus. J&#303; lengva nutraukti.</p><p>Bet supinti kartu mes tampame audiniu.</p><p>Gal tod&#279;l audinys man n&#279;ra tik priemon&#279; paveikslui sukurti.</p><p>Tai kalba.</p><p>Praeitis susipina su dabartimi. Svetima istorija &#8212; su mano. Gamta &#8212; su &#382;mogaus rankomis. Ka&#382;kieno d&#279;v&#279;ti mar&#353;kiniai &#8212; su mano si&#363;le. Mano gyvenimas &#8212; su gyvenimu &#382;mogaus, kurio galb&#363;t niekada nesutiksiu.</p><p>Ir a&#353; imu audinius &#8212; siuvu, kerpu, kalbuosi su jais, &#382;aid&#382;iu, kvailioju.</p><p>Ir jie gyvena toliau.</p><p>Jie tampa paveikslu.</p><p>Paveikslu, kuris turi savo kalb&#261;. Kuris vien&#261; dien&#261; atras &#382;mog&#371;, su kuriuo gal&#279;s kalb&#279;tis toliau.</p><p>Gal jis puo&#353;. Gal guos. Gal paskatins gyventi. Gal &#382;mogus praeis pro j&#303; &#353;imt&#261; kart&#371; ir tik &#353;imt&#261; pirm&#261;j&#303; ka&#382;k&#261; pamatys.</p><p>Nes menas turi savo tyli&#261; gali&#261;.</p><p>Tyli&#261; kalb&#261; &#8212; b&#363;ti &#353;alia.</p><p>B&#363;ti.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.simfin.art/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This essay is written in both English and Lithuanian &#8212; lietuvi&#353;kas tekstas &#382;emiau.  </p><h4>Flow of Thoughts</h4><h4>Life shapes me. And I create art.</h4><p>My name is Simona Finkelstein.</p><p>Sometimes it feels as though I chose the path of an artist.</p><p>But the longer I live, the more I realize that it wasn&#8217;t me who chose creativity.</p><p>It chose me.</p><p>I cannot remember a life without an inner calling to create.</p><p>I paint, photograph, draw, work with textiles, watercolor, acrylics, and oils. I dance. Sometimes I write.</p><p>To me, these are not different art forms.</p><p>They are one continuous flow of creation.</p><p>Flow of Thoughts (2016&#8211;2026) is a collection that grew over ten years alongside my own life.</p><p>This collection was not born in a studio.</p><p>It was born in life.</p><p>When my daughters were born, my world became the size of our home. For nearly five years, I barely painted. There was no studio. No canvases. No time that belonged only to me.</p><p>But creativity never disappeared.</p><p>It quietly kept growing within me.</p><p>Until one day I realized:</p><p>I cannot not paint.</p><p>I had to find another way.</p><p>So I began looking around.</p><p>At fabrics.</p><p>At old clothes.</p><p>At bed linen.</p><p>At pieces of linen that had already lived one life.</p><p>And at new linen, still waiting for its story to begin.</p><p>I arranged.</p><p>I stitched.</p><p>I cut.</p><p>I rearranged.</p><p>At first, I didn&#8217;t even realize I was making paintings.</p><p>It felt as though I was simply playing. Directing a small performance made of fabric, stains, textures, and threads. I was cutting and arranging little hidden worlds, like the &#8220;secrets&#8221; we made as children, uncovering them layer by layer.</p><p>That play became my meditation.</p><p>A way of listening to myself.</p><p>Once the textile piece was complete, I stretched it over a wooden frame, primed it, and painted.</p><p>Some works needed almost no paint at all.</p><p>The material spoke for itself.</p><p>Others were covered in thick layers of oil paint.</p><p>Only now do I understand that these works brought together everything I had learned throughout my life.</p><p>Scenography.</p><p>Textiles.</p><p>Painting.</p><p>Motherhood.</p><p>Life itself.</p><p>Perhaps that is why my work is filled with layers.</p><p>After all, we are made of layers too.</p><p>Memories.</p><p>Experiences.</p><p>Joy.</p><p>Loss.</p><p>Hope.</p><p>Over those ten years, it wasn&#8217;t only the paintings that changed.</p><p>I changed too.</p><p>Today, I no longer see Flow of Thoughts as simply a collection.</p><p>I see ten years of life.</p><p>Years of creating while watching my daughters grow.</p><p>And growing alongside them.</p><p>Learning to trust my intuition.</p><p>Creating became the place where I could return to myself.</p><p>A small space where I could flow with life instead of against it.</p><p>Without it, that flow would have been much harder.</p><p>This is not the end of the story.</p><p>It is simply the end of one &#8220;flow of thoughts&#8221;.</p><p>Because every flow naturally becomes the next.</p><p>&#127473;&#127481; Lietuvi&#353;kai</p><h4>Negaliu netapyti</h4><h4>Gyvenimas kuria mane. O a&#353; kuriu men&#261;.</h4><p>Esu Simona Finkelstein.</p><p>Kartais atrodo, kad pasirinkau meninink&#279;s keli&#261;.</p><p>Bet kuo ilgiau gyvenu, tuo ai&#353;kiau suprantu &#8211; ne a&#353; pasirinkau k&#363;ryb&#261;.</p><p>Ji pasirinko mane.</p><p>Neprisimenu gyvenimo be noro kurti.</p><p>Tapau, fotografuoju, pie&#353;iu, kuriu tekstile, akvarele, akrilu ir aliejumi. &#352;oku. Kartais ra&#353;au.</p><p>Man visa tai n&#279;ra skirtingos meno formos.</p><p>Tai viena nenutr&#363;kstanti k&#363;rybos t&#279;km&#279;.</p><p>&#8222;Min&#269;i&#371; t&#279;km&#279;&#8221; gim&#279; ne studijoje.</p><p>Ji gim&#279; gyvenime.</p><p>Gimus dukroms, mano pasaulis susitrauk&#279; iki nam&#371;. Beveik penkerius metus netapiau. Nebuvo studijos. Nebuvo drobi&#371;. Nebuvo laiko, kuris priklausyt&#371; tik man.</p><p>Ta&#269;iau k&#363;ryba niekur nedingo.</p><p>Ji tyliai augo manyje.</p><p>Kol vien&#261; dien&#261; supratau:</p><p>Negaliu netapyti.</p><p>Turiu atrasti b&#363;d&#261;.</p><p>Prad&#279;jau dairytis aplink.</p><p>&#302; audinius.</p><p>&#302; senus drabu&#382;ius.</p><p>&#302; patalyn&#281;.</p><p>&#302; lino gabalus, kurie jau buvo nugyven&#281; vien&#261; gyvenim&#261;.</p><p>Ir &#303; nauj&#261; lin&#261;, dar tik laukiant&#303; savosios istorijos.</p><p>D&#279;liojau.</p><p>Siuvau.</p><p>Kirpau.</p><p>Perd&#279;liojau.</p><p>I&#353; prad&#382;i&#371; net nesupratau, kad kuriu paveikslus.</p><p>Atrod&#279;, kad tiesiog &#382;aid&#382;iu. Re&#382;isuoju ma&#382;&#261; spektakl&#303; i&#353; audini&#371;, d&#279;mi&#371;, fakt&#363;r&#371; ir si&#363;li&#371;. Karpau lyg vaikyst&#279;s sekretus &#8211; ma&#382;us pasl&#279;ptus pasaulius, kuriuos sluoksnis po sluoksnio v&#279;l atrandu.</p><p>Tas &#382;aidimas tapo mano meditacija.</p><p>B&#363;du i&#353;girsti save.</p><p>Kai skiautinys baigtas, i&#353;tempiu j&#303; ant por&#279;mio, gruntuoju ir tapau.</p><p>Kai kuriems paveikslams da&#382;&#371; beveik nereikia.</p><p>Kalba pati med&#382;iaga.</p><p>Kiti pasidengia storais aliejini&#371; da&#382;&#371; sluoksniais.</p><p>Tik dabar suprantu, kad &#353;iuose paveiksluose susitiko viskas, k&#261; gyvenime buvau i&#353;mokusi.</p><p>Scenografija.</p><p>Tekstil&#279;.</p><p>Tapyba.</p><p>Motinyst&#279;.</p><p>Gyvenimas.</p><p>Gal tod&#279;l mano darbuose tiek daug sluoksni&#371;.</p><p>Juk ir mes patys esame sudaryti i&#353; sluoksni&#371;.</p><p>Prisiminim&#371;.</p><p>Patir&#269;i&#371;.</p><p>D&#382;iaugsmo.</p><p>Netekties.</p><p>Vilties.</p><p>Per tuos de&#353;imt met&#371; keit&#279;si ne tik paveikslai.</p><p>Kei&#269;iausi ir a&#353;.</p><p>Tod&#279;l &#353;iandien &#303; &#8222;Min&#269;i&#371; t&#279;km&#281;&#8221; (2016&#8211;2026) &#382;i&#363;riu ne tik kaip &#303; vien&#261; kolekcij&#261;.</p><p>Matau de&#353;imt met&#371; gyvenimo,</p><p> k&#363;rybos, augant mano dukroms.</p><p>Ir augant man kartu su jomis.</p><p>De&#353;imt met&#371; mokantis pasitik&#279;ti intuicija.</p><p>Per tuos metus k&#363;ryba buvo mano vieta sugr&#303;&#382;ti &#303; save.</p><p>Ma&#382;a erdv&#279;, kurioje gal&#279;jau tek&#279;ti kartu su gyvenimu, o ne prie&#353; j&#303;.</p><p>Nes be jos tek&#279;ti buvo sunkiau.</p><p>Tai ne istorijos pabaiga.</p><p>Tai vienos t&#279;km&#279;s pabaiga.</p><p>Nes kiekviena t&#279;km&#279; nat&#363;raliai virsta kita</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Others become words.</p><p>I wanted to create a place for those words.</p><p>Today, I&#8217;m opening that door.</p><p>I&#8217;m beginning with I Cannot Not Paint&#8212;a reflection on ten years of Flow of Thoughts, motherhood, creativity, and the quiet ways life shapes me.</p><p>I&#8217;d be happy to have you here.</p><p>I&#8217;ll be writing in both English and Lithuanian.</p><p>&#11835;</p><p>&#127473;&#127481; Lietuvi&#353;kai</p><p>Kai kurios akimirkos tampa paveikslais. 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