I do not want my artistic oeuvre to be a moment. I want it to be a process, a lifelong project that will last for the next 60 years.
I wrote this text on the 2nd of March, 2024. It was a day when I thought about my artistic oeuvre. The truth is that I started regularly doing street photography in October 2015. I have been writing in my foreign language (English) since May 2017. I managed the www.adammazek.com website since September 2017. The first edition of “Diaries” was published two years later, in September 2019.
As you can see, my Dear Friend, I’ve been creatively productive for many years. Still, I feel it is only the beginning of my artistic journey.
I feel I still have not written anything groundbreaking and have not taken one of the most astonishing photographs of mundane reality.
I believe I will do it in the future. Also, I believe I still have 60 years of being creatively active (I hope to do street photography and write even when I am one hundred years old). I still feel I did not say the last word. I often feel I have nothing special to say before I start writing subsequent texts. Or, after finishing writing each text, I feel I thought I’d have something more to say. Still, for me, it is a process that counts. I try to write almost every day. I believe in myself. I think practice makes perfect. Only force majeure can prevent me from the broadly defined creation process.
I believe my artistic oeuvre will be more profound than van Gogh’s, Picasso’s, and Dali’s combined. I hope, my Dear Friend, you also believe in yourself. Undoubtedly, it is the first to try to do something profound and change this world for a better place. Of course, in terms of changing, I recommend starting with yourself. What I did to improve my creative workflow is that I quit drinking alcohol, stopped eating sweets, avoided processed food, started intermittent fasting, and started exposing my body to cold (by taking cold showers and walking in summer clothes in frigid temperatures).
