2019
glass
35 cm x 16 cm x 16 cm

​FRAGILE MEMORY (GLASS STILL LIFE)

or the Mourning Self-Portrait* in still life [subtitle]
 

 

Compositions made of glassware, where each piece has its own history and its own story. My mother's bowls, my grandmother's plates, a glass from my old house in Poland, friends' glasses, etc. Each of these still lifes is a reflection of myself. In each piece of glass there is a part of me. A part of my life created by my loved ones – family members and friends – and by time.

 

These are probably the most colourful photos I have ever taken in my life. And I made them during a very dark time of my life, without any light - when my mother died and shortly after my best friend, younger than me. I didn't expect any colours at this time, but unexpectedly, I saw in these objects a Beginning (the sand from which the glass is made) and an End (when the glass breaks). There is here a delicacy, a light, a memory, a fragility (of a moment, of life, of glass). There is everything that is important to me here: family, love, places, memories, nature (sand) and care for nature (glass is a 100% recyclable material). Finallythere is the simplicity of form and purity of work, so typical of my art.

These photographs are a reflection of Time, Life and Death. The sophisticated compositions of cold objects that penetrate the Galaxies of the Unknown, accepting the lack of answers and treating the "Here and Now" only as Temporal. With all the awareness, sense of the moment and a gigantic array of feelings and energy.

 

 

 

* In early March 2019, my mother died after 1.5 years in a palliative center (hospice). My partner and I were by her side in this important and fragile moment. In the summer of 2019 my best friend passed away. I created the FRAGILE MEMORY thinking about them. Without these Infinite Losses this series would not have emerged.