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

And I will be there represented by Artisan Direct Ltd. 6 of my paintings from the Return of Peter Pan Series will be to admire. I am not humble, but I am really love this series. The paintings are cheerful, mysterious, some of them surreal, some of them funny all of them really beautiful. I hope if you are living in Florida or close to Miami you will go and see my paintings. I would love it.

A selection of paintings from Return of Peter Pan Series

Red Dot Miami cov­ers the entire spec­trum of artists, includ­ing emerg­ing, mid-career, and estab­lished artists. This year’s show involves nearly 45 gal­leries from all across the globe, spe­cial­iz­ing in both mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art. Works include just about every medium in con­tem­po­rary prac­tice: paint­ing pho­tog­ra­phy, sculp­ture, and works on paper. There is also a spe­cial sec­tion devoted to the debut of spe­cific film and pho­tog­ra­phy projects. Addi­tion­ally another newly devel­oped sec­tion is reserved for books. This area is for pub­lish­ing houses show­ing edi­tioned pub­li­ca­tions and book arts. Red Dot Miami aims to pro­mote this medium and bring recog­ni­tion to inde­pen­dent publishers.

Lying is a bad thing to do but telling the truth isn’t good either.  When you grow up society expects from you to have a job, to make money, to find a partner to reproduce new offspring and after that do the same to them what your parents did to you; program them.

For thousands of years humans have agreed to be so and to do so.  Without any guarantee that our lives will be better, happier or healthier. The primitive instinct to procreate and the other strong instinct; to stay alive, occupy the humans’ minds.    It is encoded in our universal DNA even if we know we all die, eventually; and that our death is often despicable and undeserved.

We are working with persistence to develop new technologies, to make our lives easier but at the same time to destroy each other with more sophistication. We created a kind of civilisation, but it is very primitive. To be true we didn’t change as homo sapience a lot the last 10000 years. Wars, conflicts, exploitation, slavery, deceptions, envy, propaganda, jealousy and the all surrounding fear control our existence.

The best way to survive in this world it is to find your inner child and escape into that reality; hide there and wait till the end of your life.

Puella aeterna and puer eaternus are the heroes of my new series entitled “Peter Pan”.  They are not present in these paintings; you can’t find their faces at surfaces or in the background. They are invisible; only their souls are smiling to us.

I think that becoming a mature person isn’t synonym for better. Definitely, it doesn’t mean better life. To stay a child for ever is only the one possible alternative to survive in this horrible world.  Contrary the physiologists arguments……..Live Long Peter Pan!  Voilà

I am dreaming about different world because the reality of this one I just don’t like. I am painting my own sweet and cute non- reality.

This time I am invite you into the world of Piglet, Mike, Bobby, Tony and Kasia.

This painting is an acrylics on canvas.

"Return of Peter Pan" - acrylics on canvas 2011

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.

Here are some photos after a couple of days.

"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!

The topsy-turfy secret garden of Lyalls Cottage

My two new paintings, actually collages from the series The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage. I painted them in Dunchideock, in my studio in the Garden of Lyalls Cottage. I forgot it to present them to you.

These two paintings belong to the series The Secret Garden of Lyalls Cottage. They are abstracts, both acrylics on board, small sizes.

They are very colourful and very bizarre in some ways. I used an incredible lot of weird stuff to make them. The garden of Lyalls Cottage is a very rich source for beautiful, colourful and natural (living as well as dead) objects, and junk. It is amazingly wonderful.

Usually I always explain what I add/ put/ use to make a painting. Not this time. It is a puzzle for you. Find out what I used to make them and then tell me. If you are right I have a nice surprise for you.

I have to frame this paintings, it will be not an easy task to do it, I am afraid.

I am just happy in this garden by Kasia B.T.

The title of this work is "My past and my future", the newest one "my past and my future"

This Past represents the small abstract oil painting, the colourful one with the poem. It is a real poem, written by my. Occasionally I am possessed by my muse. In a sudden incandescence I become a poet.

Although I know that it's impossible
I want to touch your nakedness,
To get close to you.

So you open me the door to your dreams at least once,
When I dare to knock.

I would like to eat you like a mango,
In the way only I can do,
With sensitive perversion.

Embrace you like a Texan landscape embraced from a plane,
Without peaks, mountains and hills, sunny and boring.

If you couldn't lock yourself on seven locks and you didn't turn seven times seven keys in these locks than maybe something could be possible.

Give me one, this smallest key, please!

The small abstract I made in 2004. At the moment that I placed it on a big, white space of the canvas it became a new painting. The white canvas, the future is connected with the past, the small abstract painting by wires. Depending on the mood it could be connected outside (behind the canvas) or inside around the canvas. Our future is almost certainly determined by the choices that we made in the past and by the time that is left to us.

My past and my future by Kasia B. Turajczyk

I am thinking about framing it in a transparent frame. Maybe Plexiglas. I am curious about this idea. Or maybe I should use a black frame, since our future is limited by death. However why should death be black? Maybe death is colourful and elusive, like a rainbow?

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.

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