Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / FEBRUARY 2022<br />
Krzysztof Figielski<br />
Poland<br />
kfigielski.art.pl/en<br />
About<br />
I am visual artist, designer and illustrator. From time to time<br />
below the surface of everyday hustle and bustle, I manage<br />
to discover a small secret and silence. I open myself to what<br />
appears. I am an inner traveler. Art is for me a kind of journey<br />
to sources. I feel the world extends both outside and within<br />
us. By means of symbols and images I pass on the discovered<br />
beauty and energy of life. I am inspired by cultures that stay<br />
connected with the Earth, fairy tales and myths, symbolic<br />
and surrealistic art, Jung’s psychology.<br />
My HandBook<br />
When I looked in the wardrobe in my room I saw a tiny sticker<br />
there with the words “Answers are everywhere”. It was like<br />
that. I started with looking around, sketching and reading.<br />
A simple day and week schedule was a great help for me as<br />
well as the presence of other residents and the wild snowy<br />
nature in Hämeenkyrö. I found inspiration in the book “The<br />
Thinking Hand“ by the finish architect and thinker Juhani<br />
Pallasmaa. He emphasizes the value of the multi-sensory<br />
approach to the creative process. His book is like a primer<br />
not only to architecture and art, but life as well. After a period<br />
of uncertainty I turned my sketchbook into “My Handbook”.<br />
I started to watch my hands, listened to them, played with<br />
them. It was like bringing my mind more into the hands and<br />
body, establishing the tool-hand union. I was playing with<br />
different tools and with the materiality of the paper. We<br />
usually treat drawing and painting as just visual arts but<br />
that is not the whole truth. Juhani Pallasmaa writes about<br />
the tactile connection through the hand with imagination: “I<br />
have also had chance to observe that the hand and the body<br />
produce distinctly different ideas than the head”. Walking in<br />
the woods is a multi-sensory experience and this can also be<br />
the creative process. I would like to stay with this approach.