LandE scape
Marta Sieczak
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
put as one layer. So it comes a moment when I have to decide precisely where on canvas this particular color should stay. Painting-over in batik technique is hard and not really efficient, so I prefer to spend some time and think twice, before just putting a random color at random part of canvas. For PLACES I have chosen vivid colors, to create some tension: a contrast between theirs energy and melancholic atmosphere of the picture, between theirs dynamic- and harmony of composition. I wanted colors to follow the real-unreal discourse we ' ve been already talking about.
True, the open reading and associative possibilities are crucial, because the paintings themselves are created in multiplicity of meanings. Behind each painting stays a set of thoughts- not a single statement. When I explore some problem, I always try to approach it from various points of views, which implicates more and more thoughts connected to eachother- and I end up with some set of thoughts which I want to express. That ' s why the paintings present open spaces, kind of landscapes, which are specified but still within this specification are many elements. It ' s like when I say " forest "