ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 166

ICUL CTION
C o n t e m p o r a r y

A r t

Marta Stysiak

R e v i e w

Special Issue

landscape always reminded me of Edward
Hopper's paintings. Such landscape is
difficult to find in Europe though I think the
light and architecture is very much close
to Hopper's, I had such impression at that
time, I think I still have. I have very
peculiar feelings for this place and with
any other that I have it. I put it under one
sky with London because memory is not
resticted to just one place or picture, it
alwyas brings memories in clusters / sets
of images and sometimes they have loose
connectins with each other or none.
In Why it takes so long? the images
slowly dissolve one into another,
suggesting a process of deconstruction
and recontextualization. This allows you
to accomplish the difficult task of
constructing a concrete aesthetic from
experience, working on both
subconscious and conscious level.
Moreover, it's important to remark that
you rely on people you truly know or love:
so we would take this occasion to ask you
if in your opinion personal experience is
absolutely indispensable as part of the
creative process? Do you think that a
creative process could be disconnected
from direct experience?

Absolutely indispensable. Even an abstarct
painting is not a complete chaos, it may
be structured, it may be not but the
painter's state of being in the exact
moment relys on his personal experience
and he can't separete the two. Creative
process is a wicked thing so I estabished
my daily routines which frame my time for
work. But still it's still within my life.
My lates work is a set of polaroids of
flowers taken after I gave birth to my
child. I was exhausted with all sorts of
things and never managed the to set the
flowers for the photography when they
were in full bloom but dead. They were my
Selfportrait.

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