warstwy
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warstwy series

warstwy 

the damaged is revived and beautified.

WARSTWY is a Polish phrase that means layers. In many ways it is linked with my time lived in Poland even though these works were executed when I came to Malta. In these abstract paintings, the surface and the layers of pigment aim towards beauty of imperfection. Flaws are celebrated, imperfections are highlighted, and fragility is embraced. Time and means for spontaneity were planned and controlled.

Kintsugi is a centuries-old Japanese traditional art that means ‘joining with gold’. Broken ceramics are adorned with a lacquer mixed with powdered gold. This tradition is more than aesthetic. For the Japanese, it’s part of a broader philosophy of embracing the beauty of human flaws. The kintsugi technique is an extension of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which sees beauty in the incomplete and value in simplicity. The idea of beauty, imperfection and the healing self unconsciously led me to this body of work. During my working process I became more aware of my expressions. Kintsugi helped me to join the puzzle.

During my studies at the University of Lublin in Poland, I was encouraged to experiment with pigment and materials. The harmony achieved after mixing materials together was my main concern. I wanted to use mixed media to evoke a tactile feel, the colours I applied are 
unconsciously related to stimuli

 around me in nature. I also took a conscious decision to create work in clear colour contrast based in part on colour theory. I am a calculated colourist, and my main concern is to achieve balance and harmony. ‘WARSTWY’ is a project in which the damaged is revived and beautified. My scope in abstract works is to search for harmony and beauty.

These works depict the broken nature, they can represent scars that need healing which are coloured to accentuate their beauty or scars that are healed and transformed. We are not perfect even though we seek perfection, beauty is also in imperfection.

The Divine is perfect and complete beauty is found in Him. The Divine is beauty, and beauty is Divine. We are in search of beauty, in search of our roots inside us and outside us. Our individual perceptions reduce freedom and joy. We tend to judge things, situations, experiences, people, ourselves through perceptions built over time. What are the roots of our spontaneous feelings and emotional reactions? Spontaneous emotional reactions are caused by something in us, which very often is abstract and unknown. We need to be aware and responsible of what is causing these reactions, that very often leads to pain. We must guard the vulnerable ‘Self’ so not to be harmed in the first place, but as humans we are prone to lower our inbuilt guards and let our self 

to be harmed. Abstraction is governed by spontaneity and vice versa; this is the essence of these works. I contemplated the broken self and how it can be healed and transformed. In my works that guard of protection is at times given meaning by sealing my work with resin. Resin in this case acts like an exoskeleton, as an armour of my work. This is representative in my concept of healing scars. The guard can be formed once again and restored through self awareness. The pigment reacts differently on the variety of surfaces and partially shows traces and hues of the layer underneath. These traces are symbolically representative of past scars and human flaws. The work relies on chance (working beyond understanding) and is in a way unguarded which leads to an unpredictability of reactions, this reveals beauty in the imperfections. The working process is a history of layers, that I had to come to terms with. Beauty is revealed in the healed, broken ‘self’.

Human flaws are layered and embedded in us, they are juxtaposed and changed in us. The same applies to my works. They take a cue from our humanity, on our struggles to heal ourselves and on the beauty that is achieved when such scars heal and if not, our open wounds are still beautiful, because imperfection itself has its own tenets of beauty.

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