My artistic practice inspired me to deepen my esoteric education. I completed Psychotronic Psychology in Białystok, reinforcing intuitively sensed theories.
Each of my art works tell the stories of my explorations in response to astrological events, philosophical contemplations, and spiritual practices in which I am currently immersed,
I observe them through the eyes of Oidy.
O. Wilde
"Life imitates art."
I have never been able to commit myself to one technique, my works often combine them.
Perhaps this way of functioning in the space between dimensions is closest to my Heart and Moon in Pisces.
It was this approach that guided me towards conceptual art and studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Encountering such a model of artistic education reassured me that using a manual artistic workshop and continuing the practices of my ancestors are crucial for maintaining authenticity.
At that Academy, there was a division between thinkers and doers. Thinkers were preffered.
There, I discovered my belief that for me,
Art is primarily the affair of the Heart and Spirit, therefore I'm neither thinker or doer but feeler, an ultra-intellectual approach lost its attractiveness, and I've quit the studies.
I took with me a mind open to new possibilities, technologies, and process thinking, instead of focusing on the product.
Linocut has been with me since my time at the Art School, where I studied the woodcarving specialization. This form of relief printing is for me an extraordinary combination of drawing, painting, and sculpture.
In wprintmaking, I love the possibility of repetition while maintaining the unique and hand-made character of individual prints.
Multiplying an image created with conscious intention, in the spirit of Oidy, allows me to strengthen the message, adding meaning with Numerology, I create a kind of Intentional groups of people who possess prints from the same series.
My inspiration comes from religious images distributed during various church occasions. Such images and other devotional items were produced by my Grandfather and Father and sold at Church Fairs in times before I was born.
Embroidery and fabric art settled into my creative life during a dark period when I have struggled with depression and anxiety.
The softness of materials and mindfulness required to work with a sharp tool became highly therapeutic for me.
Embroidery has a lot in common with tattooing, both techniques involve working with a needle, and clothing is a kind of second skin.
Working with intention and clothing made me start to delve deeper into the idea of slow fashion and clothing upcycling. In a way, it has always been close to me, I share it with my sister, we were raised in a home where second-hand clothes were always used.
Our mom is an exceptional thrift store hunter, and it is from her that I inherited the gift to find vintage treasures on which I work.
My grandmother taught me "handicrafts",
I grew up surrounded by knitted creations, which, alongside food, were her language of love. I inherited her pedal sewing machine
and entire collections of yarns, needles, crochet hooks, and buttons, which I still use.
I consider this type of creativity to be deeply feminine, allowing exploration of the essence of femininity in an energetic, cultural, and ancestral sense.
Drawing and painting for me are the fundamental forms of creativity. I treat them as an externalized, visual thought process, at the same time the most intimate form of creation.
I received a classical artistic education at the Magdalena Abakanowicz School of Fine Arts in Gdynia Orłowo, and I am very grateful for the workshop that I can draw on because of it. Especially after the experience of studying at a Western European, conceptual Academy of Fine Arts, I have gained an even greater respect for the nobility of manual craftsmanship.