Mikado
The inspiration for Mikado series has been spontaneous installations created by my 9-year-old son, Ignacy. He has been using various wooden elements to build structures. I was fascinated by his vitality and creativity, a primordial energy of creating that leads to making an object.
He is guided by a sense of harmony and elementary principles of composition which have their roots in the structure of visual perception. It is a kind of a play that becomes a form of interference in space and object.
In postphotography, as in spontaneous actions of a child, the activity is an experiment and an analysis of reality. It is linked to reacting to the current situations and opening oneself to the unknown and incomprehensive. In my work on Mikado I reveal the inside of building an image. Through demonstrating the initial gesture, the traces of the tool become as important as the registered reality. Cutting, cloning and smudging the image serve to construct and interpret the record. In the result, there appears a previously non-existent photographic image and a new reality of it. The real world becomes a material to be shaped on an energetic level.
