Kasia Turajczyk » shadow of the invisable http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com My Ramblings About Art Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:43:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Kasia Kasia My ramblings about art No No Metropolis and its heart http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2010/08/metropolis-and-its-heart/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2010/08/metropolis-and-its-heart/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:07:51 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=434 My new painting in the Metropolis series is called  “Metropolis and its heart”.

Metropolis and its heart

Metropolis and its heart, acrylics on canvas; 90cm x 90cm

I have been thinking for a long time about what constitutes the heart of the big city. What could it be? The technology and the evolutionary progress and development in the education of homo sapiens? Or our nature, the fact that we are sociable, a social and collective animal? However this is inconsistent with the reality – people who live in a small village or town are more sociable and less anonymous than those who live in big molochs. Living in a big city makes us 100% nameless, more private and more secret.

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]]> My new painting in the Metropolis series is called  “Metropolis and its heart”.

Metropolis and its heart

Metropolis and its heart, acrylics on canvas; 90cm x 90cm

I have been thinking for a long time about what constitutes the heart of the big city. What could it be? The technology and the evolutionary progress and development in the education of homo sapiens? Or our nature, the fact that we are sociable, a social and collective animal? However this is inconsistent with the reality – people who live in a small village or town are more sociable and less anonymous than those who live in big molochs. Living in a big city makes us 100% nameless, more private and more secret.

Our planet, our Earth can exist without us, maybe better than with us. But what about the Metropolis? Metropolis is a human creation. Without homo sapiens there will be no Metropolis. After 100 years, maybe even less than that, the Metropolis will be trash, in ruins, a great source for fantasy art paintings and illustrations.

The Metropolis is such a big thing and the order within it is not constrained during its development to repeat the things that exist in one part in any other part. Even if we reflect that the big cities were made by and for people, some order exists in it without our knowledge. There is also a lot of order in the creation of Metropolis which we humans have put there, like a string in a maze, so that we shall not lose our way. However the living system that is Metropolis has its own order, but the brain is separated from the heart. This amazing, ill and degenerate body, also beautifully ruthless and always sleepless, can’t exist without us humans. Therefore the heart of the Metropolis is us – PEOPLE.

If you see the painting in the flesh you can spot lots of creatures inside the central part of the work, and also lots of small creatures all around the suburbs. We are the heart!

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]]> http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2010/08/metropolis-and-its-heart/feed/ 16 The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2009/07/the-secret-garden/ http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2009/07/the-secret-garden/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:06:31 +0000 Kasia http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/?p=186 Since three months ago, we have lived in Dunchideock in Lyalls Cottage. Dunchideock is a small, old village, with the house itself dating from around the 15th century. But, the house as a house is only a house; walls, a ceiling, thatched roof, and a floor. The most important part of the property is the garden: a beautifully fabulous, magical and bewitching place. The garden and the house are surrounded by all kinds of nature including horses, rabbits, deer, pheasants, foxes, and veritable smorgasbords of birds which all emerge silently from the forest, hills, meadows and fields. The scent of life: the scent of a real, simple, rural life.
All the nature, the garden, the air, the colours and the music of Dunchideock are inspirations for my new paintings. I spent almost my whole life in big, bigger, and even the biggest cities. If I had been told, say, four years ago, that I would have loved to live in a small village, I would have proclaimed that the person was totally irrational…

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]]> Since three months ago, we have lived in Dunchideock in Lyalls Cottage. Dunchideock is a small, old village, with the house itself dating from around the 15th century. But, the house as a house is only a house; walls, a ceiling, thatched roof, and a floor. The most important part of the property is the garden: a beautifully fabulous, magical and bewitching place. The garden and the house are surrounded by all kinds of nature including horses, rabbits, deer, pheasants, foxes, and veritable smorgasbords of birds which all emerge silently from the forest, hills, meadows and fields. The scent of life: the scent of a real, simple, rural life.
All the nature, the garden, the air, the colours and the music of Dunchideock are inspirations for my new paintings. I spent almost my whole life in big, bigger, and even the biggest cities. If I had been told, say, four years ago, that I would have loved to live in a small village, I would have proclaimed that the person was totally irrational…

And see me now! I don’t even want to think about living 24 hours, 30 days per months, even 12 months per year in Amsterdam, Vienna or London.  I am just perfectly happy here, even if it rains cats and dogs almost for a month. I am just happy, simply happy, audaciously happy. I am happy because I can be, watch, see, breath, absorb, take up and feel delighted by the nature around me.

Dunchideock, the garden of Lyalls Cottage, the nature of South Devon are the inspiration of my new paintings. The new paintings are combination of my observation of the surrounding nature, my imagination, the happiness of creation, painting, experimenting, and transforming that which surrounds me and how I experience it.

Here are a few of the new acrylic paintings from my series ‘The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage’ and “The Shadow of the Invisible in Dunchideock”.

It is raining in Red in Dunchideock - by Kasia B. Turajczyk; 50,2 cm x 40,8 cm; from the series The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage

It is raining in Red in Dunchideock - by Kasia B. Turajczyk; 50,2 cm x 40,8 cm; from the series The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage

The Tree in the Secret Garden - Kasia B. Turajczyk; 50,8 cm x40,2 cm; from the series The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage

The Tree in the Secret Garden - Kasia B. Turajczyk; 50,8 cm x40,2 cm; from the series The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage

The night has fallen down in Dunchideock II by Kasia B. Turajczyk 50,8 x 40,2 cm; From the series 'Shadow of the invisable'

The night has fallen down in Dunchideock II by Kasia B. Turajczyk 50,8 x 40,2 cm; From the series "Shadow of the invisable"


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