Kasia Turajczyk - Much Ado About My Art

Three weeks before last Christmas - December 2013 - I was in one of my thousands of melancholic moods. I was brooding about the human condition, especially about the inanity and foolishness of my species. I went to my studio, picked up a small canvas, some acrylic and oil paints, and in no time a new painting was born. To be or not to be - a short story of the tragic life of a freak. The little cripple is very unfortunate - he has only one hand,  weird asymmetric eyes, he is not handsome and in addition he is also very lonely. The whole group of very diverse puppets and toys do not accept him. I like him,  but he is not satisfied with my company. In desperation he decides to go on stage, pretends to commit suicide and in front of the other puppets he asks: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. detail - To ...

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. ”  ― Albert Einstein The Polish Fairy Tale - New painting from my new series Phantasmagoria It is a fairy tale about a Caterina di Barche, a daughter of a Polish prince from the Piast dynasty and a Tuscans princess from Siena. Once upon a time at the lands of the kingdom of Malopolska lived a princess named Caterina di Barche. The locals called her Delight…

This is a small abstract. I began to paint it in 2011 but didn't finished it until 2013. It started out as a collage made of paper, plaster and acrylics and it was completed using oil paints. I wanted to create a mountain landscape with a waterfall. An impression of my memories of one of the waterfalls in Canada's Rocky Mountains in Alberta, in Banff National Park. The unforgettable impressions of my visit to Rocky Mountains. This is one of a type of work that everybody likes no matters whether they like abstracts or not. Other people have found creatures, bodies, humans and other more realistic elements in it. I don't see that, and I had no intention to create it.  But freedom of interpretation is something sacred I think. This work is still available to sell.