A new painting – "The freedom of thinking – freedom of choice"

One can achieve dynamism in an abstract painting through diverse effects.  For example: the choices of the colours and how one combines them, the materials that are used, the contrast between the colours, the styles, the structure and the techniques. Of course there are thousands more possibilities and explanations depending on the philosophy of the artist or the critic. Dynamism in a painting could be cheerful but it also could be dramatic.

I think that emptiness, when contrasted with its opposite, can be very dramatic and unsettling, especially in an abstract painting. Emptiness should not be confused with the void; they are two different concepts.
(Emptiness is a key concept in Buddhist philosophy, or more precisely, in the ontology of Mahayana Buddhism. The phrase "form is emptiness; emptiness is form" is perhaps the most celebrated paradox associated with Buddhist philosophy.)

"The Freedom of thinking - freedom of choice" by Kasia Turajczyk - 120cmx120cm /2009

The painting “The freedom of Thinking” is a new art work. It is a 6 panelled painting. Three of the panels are fairly expressive; the other three are fairly simple and calm.  Two of the three are extremely simple, almost empty. The white one is just a white space with two lines, one dirty-white whilst the other line is black. The second canvas, the red-orange one, is only disturbed by one black line, like a shadow.  The third panel is coloured black and white. It has more narrative content.

The three remaining panels are very expressive, full of traces of brushes and pallet knifes, the contours between the colours are aggressive and rough. The contrast between the calmness and the not-calmness, expression and the absence of it, is it significant? Maybe the calmness and its opposite complement one another more than contradict each other?
The person who buys the painting (the 6 panels) has the freedom to make a choice by their selection of the panels. He or she can hang the panels in the same way I think they belong together, but this is not inevitible. The person who will own the painting is free to make up her/his own mind; they are absolutely free to create their own composition. He or she can put the 6 panels together or maybe separate them into two groups; the dynamic group and the calm group on different walls, or maybe all of the 6 on the same wall but with a space between or maybe each of the panels will hang in different rooms.

I wonder to what extent that freedom to create ones own composition from the 6 panels will generate a new art work. I made the painting but at the moment that I cease to own it anymore the painting begins to live its own life. I believe that non-figurative art is “dispossessed”; a free interpretation is the essence of such art. Only the title of the art work may determine the thoughts of the person who looks at the painting.
It is my strong belief that freedom of thinking is the only freedom that we possess, and that the freedom of thinking at the same time determines our choices. In the sense that we only have free choice if those choices are conditional on our free thinking.  Whether we like it or not we are slaves of our material existence and our material possessions. Only our dreams and our thoughts are free and in some way independent.

Three of the panels are painted using acrylics and the other three are oil paintings. I used brushes, pallet knives, rice seeds and dried grasses.