Tomasz Kukawski ARE

For Thomas, graphic art has long been an alchemy, a discipline combining brutality with delicacy, brutality in the sense of treating the matrix material combined with the delicacy of form and thought on paper, which, after many years of practice, gave a valuable alloy. Among other reasons, based on the ups and downs of the creative process, I understand that you only work at the workshop, that there must be tangible, physical contact between me and the tool of work, paint, matrix. Very often I have a desire for alienation, to withdraw into the privacy of the studio, to separate myself from all this hustle and bustle, vernissages, media and the web. I like to delve into myself and my work. I guess that's my personality, and I think more and more often that you can't force yourself to do too many things, you can't give up on many things, you have to slowly try to listen to your own nature. Art is there to express what cannot be expressed by other means. Maybe it is naivety, but I still believe in it a little. I myself am increasingly made up of doubts, which is why I have to repeat to myself from time to time the words of William Blake: ' Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.' Without deep self-discipline, nothing will be achieved.