New painting "Paranoia I – Maciek"

One day in December 2002 I received an SMS on my mobile phone: ‘Maciek died last night”.  Maciek Szewczyk was my darling cousin. When still alive he was a very talented painter; a Buddhist, philosopher, user of various joints and spliffs, father of a 9 month old baby and the husband of an irrational and insane psychologist. Maciek was an unusual human being; I will always see him as "a troubadour who sang for his people, as a troubadour who sought the friendship of all human beings, animals, trees and stones."*

The painting is made up of two panels. I painted the first panel, the small one, during a winter night a few weeks after his death. His death was so unreal for me. I couldn’t accept it. It was so surrealistic that when thinking about it I felt nothing, nothing at all. This was a fearful-paranoid experience.  For this small panel I used oil paints, seeds and some grains.

The final painting I finished only a week ago, in February, 2009. The second canvas once belonged to Maciek. He didn’t finish it, there were only a few spots. I left them; the blue and the red spots on the background panel are his spots.

diflucan retail price  style="text-align: left;">* from art catalogeus- Maciej Szewczyk, February 1994