Here are the images of the final result:

The end result 2 October 2010

Ugly - final reslut

Beautiful final October 2010

The installation in the Garden of Lyalls Cottage

My conclusions:

Brown, yellow-brown and red colours predominate on the "ugly" side.

• Emphatic resistance to the colour red. The CD's in red on the side of "Beautiful" are only in combination with other colours.
• They are lots of CDs on the Ugly side that I personally like a lot.

And last, but perhaps the most important conclusion:

• De gustibus non est disputandum.

"In matters of taste there is no dispute" said the Romans a long time ago and they were right. Any opinion on the topics of taste is futile. Objectively and logically it can be concluded that there is no good or bad taste. You cannot say that someone is wrong or that someone is right only because he or she likes something different than you. What I like you don’t have to. One should not judge others just because they feel differently and/or think differently.
To recapitulate, in general humans are stupid if they surrender themselves to the pressure of public opinion, newspapers, magazines, fashion designers, critics, art critics and so on. The implication is that the media prey on our stupidity. But this is a different discussion and a subject for another long debate!

Thank you very much to all of you who took part in making this installation.

It will now be dismantled and moved to Poland where I will have a solo exhibition later this year. I will post about the Polish results after the close of the exhibition in Poland in December.

"If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

The painting “For Lesiu Orzesiu” is atypical for me at this moment. I used to paint in this way when I was 14 -16 years old. It was in the era when I first discovered oil paints and canvasses. My first oil painting, which I still have, presents Pinocchio, a toy made in Russia. I got it from Christopher, when I was 15 years old. I still have my Russian Pinocchio, unfortunately, he is missing his nose. The nose became detached somewhere, somehow, at some point during our joint trips. Pinocchio is made from plastic (such a very hard plastic) and is wearing knit wear made by me. I took him everywhere with me; we travelled together through almost the whole of Europe and some other parts of the world.

As a child I loved the story about Pinocchio and Geppetto. This wooden puppet gave me courage and hope that there was always a chance for salvation and rebirth. Although I was the opposite of Pinocchio, and told the truth. However, telling the truth got me constantly in trouble, too. I remember being surprised hearing my Mum telling lies and not growing donkey ears, I really expected her ears to grow. I am still waiting for this magical moment. When I finally realized that telling the truth is not practical, it was already too late for me. Not telling the truth turned out to be even greater torture than telling the truth. At some point of my life I started to create made-up  stories, and this fact began to cause me much satisfaction, especially observing people listening to my far-fetched absurdities. My excuses for doing that were very simple. It was not lying or cheating with premeditation, it was just my imagination that needed to take flight.

Returning to the painting “For Lesiu Orzesiu” the creatures in it are real and the colours too. Lesiu asked me to make his beloved creatures immortal. I guess the painting will travel to India with him, soon. And so the word became flesh (the painting!) It is a medium sized painting on canvas 70cm x 50cm. I used the best Rembrandt’s acrylic paints (I think they are one of the best) with a minimum admixture of oil.
I hope that Peter Pan will always be alive in Lesiu and that Lesiu never lets him fade into oblivion. Amen!

It is really fun to use old CDs, seeds, some recycled materials and combine them with acrylics. The limited space on the old CD’s and the same form all the time forces me to be very creative with the colours and to think in a different way than usual when I am using canvas.

I can make 100 absolutely different CDeens (a new word for painted CD’s) and then from the 100 small pieces of CDeens I can create lots of new art  works. Vertical, horizontal, round, square – the bases could be very diverse.

Who is who? 48 cm x 12 cm on wooden panel

What do you think about this idea of using old CD’s to create an artwork?

I am happy to work with old CD's, I think we should try to use more and more rubbish to help our planet. A kind of recycling I guess.

The Personalities - installation, project, concept

This work is about Metropolis and the loneliness, Metropolis and the despair, Metropolis and the choices .

It is an acrylic on canvas. The diverse colours of red have a more nuances in real than on this photograph and the red is more red than that.

The common commotions of red are  aggression, blood, courage, devils, energy, fire, guilt, hell, love, passion, stop, anger, hatred, pain, socialism, sacrifice, autumn, sin, violence, negativity, danger, warning, lust, communism, blushing, exit, friendship, honour, leadership and Good Luck (in China!)

Metropolis II by Kasia B. Turajczyk 80 cm x 80 cm

This painting is linked to my first painting in the series Metropolis  viz. "Metropolis alias Moloch".To see the meaning of this series please go to http://blog.kasiaturajczyk.com/2009/02/new-painting-moloch-alias-metropolis/

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