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Blueberryland #2/n

Kasia — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:30:52 +0000

From my new Series Blueberryland – The adventure in the Blueberry Hole

Blueberryland is full of unpredictable and unexpected phenomena.

Just when Blueberryer and Blueberryess wanted to go for a nice, evening walk suddenly out of the blue a golden and blue hole opened its mouth and both of them were taken into a new adventure. Maybe they could even wake up in a new Universe? Can they survive inside the blueberry hole? Is there a way to escape from it? Is the blueberry hole less dangerous than an ordinary black hole? Can Blueberryer rescue his Blueberryess without his Golden bike?

The adventure in the Blueberry Hole from the Series Blueberryland #2/n.

Blueberryland #2/n - detail

Blueberry Biker on his way to his lover hidden in a golden cage.

Kasia — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:56:11 +0000

There is a golden night in Blueberry-Land. The Blueberryer is cycling on his golden bike. He is in a hurry; he is worried about his Blueberryess. She is hidden in a golden cage. She was hidden there by a vicious Spider-witch. The witch wants to suck the delicious blueberry sweet-scented juicy life from the Blueberryess. Can the Blueberry Biker arrive in time to rescue his lover? Can they live happily ever after together in Blueberry-Land?

Blueberry Biker on his way to his lover hidden in a golden cage - 40 cm x 40 cm

the spider witch detail

She, the water and the night

Kasia — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:24:40 +0000

The painting “She, the water and the night” is painted on a very special canvas, one with a past. This canvas used to belong to my uncle, who was an amateur painter, and as far as I can remember, it was kept in his bedroom. Barely visible lines and a few coloured spots. An unfinished image from an unknown past.

The only thing that my uncle knew was that the previous owner was killed during World War II. My cousin Maciej Szewczyk, my uncle's son, was a professional painter. After his sudden death (he died young), his mother asked me if I would like to have the canvas. I discovered that Maciek had begun with a new work and didn’t finish it. And so the canvas travelled to Holland from Poland.

I didn’t need to wait long until I had an idea. I started to paint and I painted every day till I finished it. I wanted to make the painting as quickly as possible in order to break this strange cycle of starting but not finishing. I guess, I wasn’t prepared to die.

In memory of Maciek, I left two traces of the painting he began. In the lower left corner of the image you can find some mystical symbols; there is also some golden text on a blue background on the right side of the image.

To Maciek and the other unknown painter I dedicated the darkness of water and the dreaming-sleepy woman in the infinity of the night.

This is a large painting, 120×83 cm. It is oil on canvas.

She, silent and the night

Garden Art Wall Installation – CD's – Part II

Kasia — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:12:23 +0000

The "Beautiful and Ugly" project has now been officially closed. The deadline has been slightly shifted in time. A few people could not visit me during the Devon Open Studios event itself, and asked me not to dismantle the installation but instead to wait until they had a chance to see it.

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

Unused CD

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.

Inspired by the colours of Devon

Kasia — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:15:51 +0000

My first 17 months of living in the country, in a real village have been a wonderful experience and bore lots of wonderful paintings, collages, installation and even small sculptures. The nature of Devon inspired me to be very creative with materials and to experiment with unusual topics for me. I hope it will move me forward to discover new possibilities for the surface, texture, patterns of my paintings and to invent new original genres.

What are the inspirations for my new work?. Definitely the colours and the sounds of the garden of Lyalls Cottage and the fields and meadows around Dunchideock, of Devon; the animals in and around the garden; the hills behind the river Exe in the East and de shapes of Exmoor in the North, the shooting stars at the cloudless sky in the night and all the others inexpressible sensational impulses and invisible mystical creatures.

I am so happy to be here, Devon is a wonderful spot to live!

Here are the images of my new collages and installations. I will make a separate post about the sculptures.

collage canvas prints

Garden Art Wall Installation – CD's

Kasia — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:00:50 +0000

During the Devon Open Studios I am inviting my visitors to take part in the process of producing an installation. It is an Art Wall Installation in my opinion. It is a large wall board, painted in different colours from black to white and all the nuances of white-grey, grey-grey and black grey. I prepared lots of mini-art works- painted old CD's. They are painted in different colours and they have different surfaces. Some of them smooth, some of them rough. All of them unique. Some of them ugly and some of them very nice. I divided the Art Wall Installation – the board in two parts: the Beautiful one and the Ugly one. We all love judging. We don't like to be judged but we do love to judge other people and other things. We should not do it. It is very bad actually, but we just do it. In the case of my installation I am asking people to make a judgement about a small piece of art work I made. I ask them to make a choice between what they think is beautiful and what they think is ugly, between nice and not nice, between what they like and what they don't like. The reactions are very interesting, some of the visitors don't want to choose an ugly CD. They just refuse to do so. Some of them are saying that such a concept as ugly don't not exist in art. Others I guess don't want to be unpleasant to me, the artist. And me, I am just curious about the taste of people, what they do like and what they do not. What is ugly for them and what is beautiful. I don't know if I will be able to come to an eventual intelligent conclusion at the end of this experiment. But I do know that I am very curious about the final result.

Here are some photos after a couple of days.

TWO and "As a winter night falls over Devon"

Kasia — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:39:35 +0000

Instead of the usual story about the inspiration for a painting, in this case for "As a winter night falls over Devon" and how it came to life, this time I present a poem. A poem about creation, art and the Tao. I think it fits perfectly together with this painting. "As a winter night falls over Devon" is a collage on board.

TWO – THE ONE FOR ME

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know the good as the good only because there is the bad.

Therefore creating and not creating arise together;
Dark and light complement each other;
Large and small contrast each other;
Realistic and abstract follow one another;
Colour and structure harmonize each other.

Therefore the artist goes about feeling and seeing not judging
Creating not reproducing
The ten thousand artworks rise and fall without finish,
Making, yet not possessing,
Working, yet not taking credit.
Art is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.

Based on Two from Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tsu

As the winter-night falls over Devon by Kasia Turajczyk

High culture, mice and art – From the Series Personalities.

Kasia — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:24:22 +0000

My perception about the subject “mice and high culture” changed dramatically after the most recent event in my studio. I didn’t expect that a rodent would appreciate art! You see…..I was wrong. They do.
One of the agreements from the Four Agreements by Jose Ruiz says ‘do not make assumptions”. How true. I did not expect that mice would love art; my paintings particularly. Perhaps I shouldn’t have used so many tasty seeds? This painting (see the image) has been eaten by mice (I assume so, I hope that we have only mice here and no rats!). I assume that they were mice, I don’t expect bats or spiders would eat my painting, maybe I am wrong?
This is my new painting from the series 'The Personalities'. The title is ‘The Family’. Maybe I will bring some changes into it the next few days……I am not sure of it is ready or not.

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I love blue

Kasia — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:58:03 +0000

The dark blue, the deep blue, the melancholic blue, the cobalt blue, the blues, your blue eyes, the thousands blueness's , the celestial sphere, the blue whale, the bluish mountains, the blue crane, the blue funk, the blue-eyed boy, the Blue-Peter, the blue-blooded, the blue berry, the bluebird and the bluebell….
All "the bluenesses" in my painting come for my love for blue, but this idea is out of the blue.
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440-490 nm.
Blue = Cu2+
Blue pigments include azurite, ultramarine, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, and Prussian blue (milori blue).
Contrary to popular belief blues is not called Blues because its lyrics are depressing but because its scale is inclusive of the "dark notes" or blue notes.
Blue is used to symbolically represent the fifth, throat chakra.
According to several rabbinic sages, blue is the colour of God's Glory
Blue has been associated with a variety of political positions, often differentiated from communist red or anarchist black. During the revolt in the Vendée against the French revolution, blues stood for the revolutionary forces, and white for the counter-revolutionaries.

Another Universe – based on traditional abstract oil painting, 2008

Used Photo Shop for the digital manipulation

My belly is singing a reggae song – based on a traditional abstract oil painting

Made in Photo Shop 2008

The Shepherds of Seven - Orion