It’ a series of watercolors on paper. All of them are small format works based on newspaper clippings or Internet screenshots that I have collected for years.
What attracts me to them are the stories they hide and the ways in which they interact. It’s a creation of many new, interesting strings of associations, activated by the similarity of shapes (HAL 9000/LHC), chunks of stories (Tibet railway/Uyghur), or even by contradistinction (Nuclear fireball/Cell). The links needn’t be reasonable nor complicated, they hatch incidentally just on the edge between images.
This collection of miscellaneous information makes an impression of a puzzle. Gentle associations give faith in restoring order to this chaos of pictures and the hope, that this seemingly illogical jigsaw has a solution. For a long time I tried to give this work some meaning, some order, but I found that this unpredictability is precisely its most valuable asset.
A series of about 100 watercolors on paper

tower, 21×29, 2020 / Private Collection

 

I’m looking, 11x11cm, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The journey from Beijing to Lhasa takes 47 hours and 28 minutes.

 

 

The Uyghur people are the most persecuted ethnic group living in China. Uyghur’s national sport, Dawaz, is walking on a line with no security.

 

 

 

 

 

 

US troops in Afghanistan, 9,5×16,5cm, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life and death start in a point. I wonder if this similarity in opposites, which seems to be improper, may suggest that something guides the world. Maybe this arrangement, which can be more felt than understood, we call God?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The view from Mars to Earth is based on a picture published by NASA.
On the photograph taken by Curiosity rover’s camera the Earth is the brightest point of light on the evening martian sky.
The view of Earth from the outer space gives me a sense of fragility of our world and everything that we consider important.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In S. Kubrick’s „2001: A Space Odyssey” the black monolith is a direct impulse for the creation of human civilization. It’s quite a cruel transformation, based on intelligence connected with aggression. What could have happened if humanity had gotten another gift? If progress could have happened without compulsory killing, aggression, competition?