border / tetraptych

border / tetraptych created in 2019 is part of „personality borders / border” cycle which started as Master’s Degree Thesis. Asceticism of the chosen drawing technique and passion for printmaking made it inevitable to look for a new way of expression and ultimately resulted in a fusion of drawing and printmaking.

border / tetraptych 70Hx200W cm, with a potential of polyptych, is created from 4 separate drawings 70Hx50W cm on background made of aquatint or cyanotype prints. It consists of border / black on white, border / silver on black, border / blue on white and border / white on blue. Each drawing duplicates a self-portrait motive from border / black drawing, the one that started the „personality borders / border” cycle.

Size of each drawing is determined by the size of intaglio or cyanotype preprints created in the process of printing the original nine-pieces artworks. They were used as a background. The drawing process is correcting the existing mistakes so that the final theme can emerge from the background, despite the original imperfections.

border / tetraptych was exhibited in 2019 Emerging Artist Scholarship Competition Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, and other works from „personality borders / border” cycle were shown in 2018 Seattle Emerging Arts Fair, Canvas Event Space, Seattle, WA; 2017 Transformation, Gallery MC, New York, NY; 2016 Master’s Degree Exhibition, Graphic Arts Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland