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Winicjusz Lysik
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The Portals & Trenches series features
visual symbols of communication—
alphabets,
numerals—that are portals to understanding different languages,
religions, and cultures. I paint the network of criss-crossing
trenches created by nature and man, which exist in the material
world as well as the subconscious.
I often represent rising threats in my works—violence, weapons.
As the subject matter becomes more dangerous, my pictorial lines,
or trenches, become more predatory, deeper, more aggressive,
running
to one or more vanishing points. These trenches are safety stops
before the next act of aggression. They run through or past portals—portals
of hope, of civilization.
Art captures the present moment. When I complete a painting,
it is no longer “mine;” it belongs to the past. I live
in the present. My newest painting is always closest to me—communicating
my emotions and reactions to what is happening in the
world around
me. I’m living in the trenches looking for the portal. |
