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Speculations
about “What has the author wanted to say? Or” What is the artist’s message?”
have always seemed to me pretty out of place, even when their author was
The Author himself. The question in itself seems quite wrong.
This is the reason why I rarely give even titles to
my paintings.
What I meant I have said in my paintings – you have
eyes – look and you will see, search and you will find! You are free to
feel, to resonate, make associations, speculate – no road signs, no fences.
After all, if the artwork itself does not touch your
soul, hardly an annotation on it will make any difference.
Wander inside your souls and let your souls wander …
This is all I wanted to give you – a push to your spirit
to roam the strange secret places of your imagination.
Let me try to tell you what these images mean to me
and to outline briefly my personal concept – only to encourage you to make
the first step, not to give you direction.
I believe in the Universe there are billions of worlds,
creations, situations, shapes and moments trying to get seen, realized,
crowding at the doorstep of Reality, longing to find a way to it. My images
are like that – all these pieces of the unrealized sort of find in me if
not a door, at least a small window to catch a glimpse of the other side.
They come by themselves, with the hesitant trust of homeless kittens, and
I just try not to disappoint them, not to distort the images that have chosen
my “window let”, to show them just the way they are without changes.
Friends have often told me they find strange the total
lack of aggression in my works, and that the tranquility radiating from
them is astonishing.
I myself believe that the answer is not in “the lack
of aggression”.
The source of this tranquility is much deeper. There
is no tension where is no conflict.
Harmony is the key word.
However, is it possible? Is Reality not made up of
conflicts, of struggling opposites, of life and death, good and evil, truth
and lie?..
Has this struggle started at the beginning of time with
the Big Bang? Will it end with its end with yet a bigger one?
Or maybe it exists only in the human mind – war between
concepts in which everyone puts a different meaning.
What is reality and what illusion? Where the borderline
between them is? Moreover, does anyone really want to know on which
side of this border one stands?
Does anyone want to find out whether the abovementioned
ideas have real meaning …universal for everybody and undisputable?
One way or another War goes on. The balance is constantly
broken; the equilibrium seems beyond your reach, and even somehow unwelcome…
from different points of view, for different reasons…
That is the whole story…
Often I feel like being as far as possible from the
line of fire – in a somewhere quiet and cozy, some place where the news
of the first man’s sin has not reached yet. It does not matter on which
side of reality I will find it.
I believe there are people like me among you who sometimes
need such havens.
Search for them; only do not bring with your luggage
your wars, your private hell. Otherwise, you will simply not find the way.
For, to find a place where everything seems different,
you have to learn to look and to see in a different manner.
This is the first step and if you make it, the direction
will not be important.
After all, in the Universe, there are billions of worlds,
creations, situations, shapes, moments just waiting to be discovered, realized,
crowding at the doorstep of Reality, full of promise and desire to find
their way in.
Search in your souls and let your souls search…
This is all I have to offer – an impulse for your spirit
to wander the maze of your imagination.
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