These issues are not always at the scale of geologic, but are also more personal and poetic. In her work "Aldona" from 2015, In the spring of 1986, the artist's grandmother, Aldona, lost her vision and became permanently blind. The nerves in her eyes were poisoned. Her doctors claimed that it was probably due to Chernobyl's Nuclear Power Plant explosion. In the film we follow Aldona through a daily sojourn, to Grutras Park, touching both the past and the present. Discussing this work on exhibition at the Kadist in the San Francisco Chronicle, art critic Charles Desmarais wrote, "Emilija Škarnulytė follows a blind woman through a park populated by ghostly stone remnants of the Soviet era in Lithuania. The old woman sees with her hands the silenced heroes who, in life, would have been far out of reach."