I have just sold two fridge door paintings of dancers-mothers and their daughters from my Sharing Surfaces collage that was first exhibited on 25.05.25 Mother’s Day at Kawałyk Sztuki in Warsaw. I am beyond happy , more than about the sale, I am truly happy that someone felt, during the show, while looking at my pieces, what I had hoped they would feel, what I was expressing, what I wanted to communicate, which is exactly why I have decided to proceed with this art vocation path in the first place. To inspire, to meet with people who not only like what you do but to hear they feel moved to do something creative in their lives. I got emails filled with joy and positivity from people wo were uplifted by my work. This is why I’m doing this.
There is also the way I want to work, the way I want to express and see when I’m making something, when I want to draw/paint with my left hand instead of right, when I want to splash and crunch and rip and stitch back together, thinking about Pina Bausch, in the documentary Pina saying “I danced at “Cafe Muller” myself. We all have our eyes closed. When we did a reprise, I couldn’t get the feeling back, a feeling that mattered so much to me. All of a sudden I noticed, that it makes a big difference, behind the closed lids, whether I look down or straight. That makes all the difference!”. What I catch from this is that it is all about the feeling, the feeling has to be right, even when everyone around you thinks you’re mad, if you feel this is the right way to go in your art, you should do it! And taking others on that journey with you is another level, I adore one of her dancers saying “Meeting Pina was like finding a language finally. Before I didn’t know how to talk and then she finally gave me a way to express myself, a vocabulary. When I began I was pretty shy, I still am, and after many moths of rehearsing, she called me and said, “You just have to get crazier” and that was the only comment in almost 20 years.” and that is what I want to have, I want to draw/paint/create and continue having that magical, dreamlike feeling, as if I was dancing with my eyes closed, on the edge of madness, because that is what real creativity, free from restrictions, feels like to me.
And when we were hanging the lamps to have the light on the fridge door only, at 7:15pm, 15minutes before the concert was about to start, everyone thought I was crazy. We could have just left the lights on at the church and everything would be lit and everyone would see everything. But I wouldn’t give up so my husband climbed the 5m ladder and hung the spot lights recommended by a theatre and gallery light engineer friend. And we turned off the lights. The concert was slightly delayed. But that made all the difference! The feeling that we wanted was there. People had tears in their eyes.
