Last time I had thought that it is the reality which is the most astonishing painter.
I believe that it is the gray, mundane, dull reality that paints my pictures. Is that mean that reality paints only my photographs? Of course not. Practically all images are being painted by mundanity. Still, many people love to embellish their pictures. I sometimes wonder why most people do not like to take photos of their usual surroundings. They prefer to wait weeks/months/years to take breathtaking pictures in far-away lands. My goal as a photographer is to find and capture such a frame that could fit into the specific canon of beauty that probably surrounds most people living on this planet, but which they often underestimate, forgetting that they have one life.
In short: let’s sculpt life’s projects out of what we have here and now. Don’t wait for better building material because such a building may never appear in our lives.
Let us take our fate into our own hands and let us fulfill ourselves in what we like to do. That’s why I walk through Warsaw’s streets and take photos of everything that makes me curious. I admire such painters like Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Johannes Vermeer, Salvador Dali or Zdzislaw Beksinski. All of them created so many breathtaking masterpieces that we can fall in love with worlds and dimensions that appeared on their canvases. Still, I believe that no one ever will become the better painter as the reality itself.
That’s why my photographs are also admirable. Even if they present mundane reality, for me, this piece of real life is something for which we would like to live as many years as possible, to be able to admire even the most boring places in our surroundings. People want to live, among others, because we want to see, feel and hear everything surrounding us.
