Familiar Places (Month of One Art Piece Per Night) is a series of oil pastel artworks I created in 2015, where I set myself the challenge of producing one drawing every month while exploring memory, everyday environments, and subtle dreamlike distortions of reality. Looking to find my own style. In this video I speak about the ideas behind the series, my artistic thinking at the time, and how the philosophy of Surrealism influenced the work. This video is a reflection on that body of work — revisiting the themes, the process, and the mindset behind the series. If you are interested in surrealist art, contemporary drawing, oil pastel techniques, and artist process, this video offers insight into how personal environments can become the starting point for imaginative and symbolic imagery. music: @DimitrovBeats
Each page is drawn individually. To purchase the original drawings or the book please send me an email: info@maciejartist.co.uk
'Home Sweet Home' investigates the theme of migration. It opens with the footage of post war British migrants to Australia, it is done so to show how comfortable they travelled to their destination, and how welcomed they were received. This is compared to the recent migration crisis and the journey of the migrants and their not so welcomed reception. This 'reception' is explored further with footage of political and social reaction to the crisis. Black and white is used to install a sense of dream, a technique used in Tarkovsky's early films. The video is distorted to emphasise the fact that the 'system' is broken. The pictorial code at the end of the video, translates to Home Sweet Home. Each of the symbols relates to the experiences of a Polish migrant: the letter home, mountains, priest carrying a cross, door to a new home etc. The design itself is reminiscent of Polish embroideries, especially the last symbol.