Photographs by Paweł Wołoch.

I was here. A basic need. To write thy own name. To mark your presence. I was here. The cutted out line in the plate almost like a heart made on a tree-trunk or the first names engraved upon the stones of pyramids. Lines, marks. A hand stenciled onto a surface of a cave. Marks and time.

During the exhibition I present three series of linocuts. Each series is consisted of ten images, mostly created just one after another – as their own variants.

Since my studies, I first did a linocut as a getaway technique from bigger scale paintings – which takes more time to finalise but also to store. Sometimes being tired is motivational – further artistic and visual experiments led me to retry that technique.

Series I and II are mostly abstract images – almost like a stream of consciousness or Rorschach examination – it is an exploration of my own thoughts, play with shapes, forms and connotations. Searching for meanings, dancing and craftmanship. The images created in the technique of linocut require a plate to have certain parts removed, almost like a statue – in a mirrored shape. Starting for a loose sketch, I rarely gave them any precise forms or meanings.

The series differ in the way the initial sketch is shaped with the chisel. Series I is based on a strong contrast.
0 or 1. Black or White. 
Series II is by making a double line around the initial sketch.

Series III is more figurative, they are based around the idea of trees. In this series I'm able to explore a more typical usage of shading, which creates the illusion of depth and space.
The symbol of a tree and the meaning around it appears also in my paintings – especially after a small part of Heban by Ryszard Kapuściński.

During the exhibition the visitors could see the matrix plates, the prints made on a self-recycled paper and the images as embosses – inkless.