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The advantages of photography as a document of events have been used by science and criminology. Documentation of events creates a sphere of visual reality that would not be able to exist without photographic registration. I… Read more

Magiczność potocznej rzeczywistości poraża swoją istotą. Wiele moich zachowań wynika z nieprzepartej potrzeby, której zasady nie mogę pojąć. Niewiadoma tego, co mnie oczekuje każe szukać mi oparcia w sobie i osobach mi bliskich. Między snem a… Read more

The Apocalypse is the most mysterious book ever written, and it has been the subject of numerous research works, exegetes, and heuristics, as well as a source of revelations since its very creation. That comes as… Read more

If photography were limited to recording pictures, things would be relatively easy. The photograph, however, is a magical, if not devilish, means of contact with reality. The devilish character of the photograph manifests itself through its… Read more

Eighteen years ago I bought a cottage in the Owl Mountains (Eulengebirge) in the charming locality of Michałkowa. Once this cottage belonged to the Thal family of Michelsdorf but the vicissitudes of history made this family… Read more

I am fascinated with my earliest conscious childhood memory. As l am getting older, images and impressions come back to me from so long ago that they seem to be almost like a fairy-tale. I was… Read more

1 The mystery of art is sometimes revealed through the agency of God or through bard, utterly burning-out work. In many cases this all-encompassing work obliterates the borders between life and art. This point of view… Read more

The reflections which I wish lo share with you spring from my own artistic experiences and therefore are perforce subjective. They refer to the deep layers of the creative process and to me they are a… Read more

1. Art is search for freedom. Freedom is an end in itself. Art is a means to this end. 2. There can be no freedom and no art where there is dependence. This is why art… Read more

Concentration. Calming down. Inner concord. Harmony. Becoming focused. Removing oneself from chaos. Polarisation of consciousness. Monitoring and self-monitoring. Reflecting. Thinking. Thoughtful non-thinking. Wise non-thinking. Spontaneous and unhurried wisdom. Slowing down. Concentration. Continuous contacts with the world… Read more

The vastness and immensity of the human body has been an unfailing subject of philosophy, literature and art in times of prosperity and relative social peace. Ancient art as well as Renaissance art raised the position… Read more

In the text titled The Transforming Stance, I have formulated the programme of ‘commonplace’ reality in art’ (1). In a series of seances conducted inside a pyramid, modelled after the Great Pyramid built by Khufu (Greek:… Read more

Interpretation of an action A. The sense of art appears more and more clearly to be conscious activity. The subjective character of art (1), about which we forget in times of mediumal convulsions is corroborated by… Read more

The Dreaming series, which started in 1978, results from my interest in the commonplace and trivial as an area of artistic penetration. The programmatic artificiality of art as proposed earlier can be seen through some trivial… Read more

Rationalized art (mainly the experience of conceptualism) has supplied an essential element of metalinquistic reflection necessary for grasping the problems and meaning of the sing. The reflective character of “visual” experiences regarded as “imaginable” resulted in… Read more

Photography seems to be a highly mysterious method of formalization. Its meaning is comparable to the meaning of language the causative power (1) of which was recognized by man a few thousand years ago (2). Language… Read more

In art’s ideal state, the artist would be at the same time the maker and recipient of his or her work, the sender and receiver of its message. Moreover, the work as such would become redundant… Read more

If artistic formalization were the same as reality, it would be possible to use scientific methods in criticising and evaluating it. Artistic activities, actions and even classical objects (works of art) are, however, sometimes different from… Read more

Had art been identical with life most probably it would have disappeared among daily activities and behavior. Reality as presented or described by art does not fit the image created by cognition based on everyday experiences…. Read more

Until recent times it was fashionable to emphasize uniqueness, incidentality, and exceptionality of the work of art. The absurdly extreme example to that attitude was a photoreporter’s years lasting expectations for an unusual and frequently macabre… Read more