Artistic Diploma 2020
Intaglio Prints 2018/2019
To create my diploma thesis I was inspired by old family photos that had been in my home for years. The series I remembered it differently is an attempt at self-reflection on our heritage, forcing us to think of what will remain after us, how others will remember us.
The graphic series consists of five black and white boards, composed
of several graphics corresponding to one quoted photograph. Each set refers to a photo, which was the basis for creating graphics and its subsequent variants. In individual works of the series, I present figures torn
out of the frames of old photographs, reduced and separated from a larger whole. In my workshop actions,
I wanted to analyze the process of human memory. By modifying plates, adding, taking, reordering and masking, I tried to relate to how our memory fades or completely distorts memories over the years. The intaglio technique allows me to process the same image using only one plate, and the significant differences between individual prints deliberately emphasize the impression of distortion of reality - human memory. First of all,
I tried to understand what we actually remember and what makes our mind. The graphic cycle is a portrait
of the forgotten, a record of changing memories. An attempt to face the awareness of how little remains in human memory in the perspective of the passing time.
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Solo exhibition "I hit the wall and fell", Dwór Artusa, Toruń, Poland
The I hit the wall and fell series consists of graphics that were created during the two academic years 2018-2019
and which closely relate to the subject of the human body; through physical deformation and understatement, I build my own vision of the figure - a bizarre image of a destroyed human being. I focus on the form, I look for the right angles, the right tensions and interesting poses. I rely on a dynamic sense of composition and the collision
of textures and uniform plane The challenge is to go beyond the ordinary, to capture a unique frame. I try to use metaphors to create an atmosphere; to find out how ambiguous a position can be. The rotogravure technique
and its endless possibilities allow me to constantly search for new forms of communication. I cut, deform, change, search. I build an image from pieces, using a wide range of possibilities offered to me by workshop graphics, including metal techniques - deep blacks and etchings. For this reason, some graphics are printed from two dies, others from five, and usually more than one version.
Small Prints
The H.P Lovecraft' horror author begins Supernatural Horror in Literature" with: the oldest and strongest emotion
of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Accordingly, horror unearths deepest nightmares and anxieties and pushes the limits of human emotion and fear. Appreciably, in my seriers of mini prints Something wicked is watching I employ topics and ideas that the everyday person would be apprehensive of addressing. First of all, I focus on the eye symbol.
In ancient myths, the eye is associated with a higher vision. The eye of Horus symbolized the moon and the eye
of Sut - the sun. In India, the Eye of Siva is known as an all-seeing eye and during the Renaissance, the eye was
a symbol for magic. In Something wicked is watching I decided to use the symbolf of eye as a constant reminder
of beeing watched. Even when we are not in the physical presence of another, our choices and actions are still under observation. It reminds us that we are never alone and small size of print to make sure that th fear will also remain small.
