In a series 36 works. Size 27х22 cm.
Benthos in Greek "depth". Under this name are combined organisms living on the ground and in the ground floor of the rivers, seas and oceans. I use this term to name the series as a metaphor of the existence of life on the very depth of the well of the universe. Real life, the fruits of which are now in museums around the world, and is now estimated world itself is very expensive. This drama, which by the way is, in principle, the Pacific, pushed me to the study of the theme of the artist and the world.
The task of the series - not to create a work of art, which examined the concepts of beauty and other senses, and is considered a puny understanding of life, our thinking, perception, and at the same time free of the brave surrender to all this world. After all, in order to create his works Miroslav Tichý, Van Gogh did not need to travel all over the ground (surface quarry). In fact, they refused to "natural feet" in general. Their work - a call to start the track tread inside. Or another dive in the quarry life reaching its bottom. (Dark bottom - a condition in which you are obliged to light in the inside himself the light, otherwise not survive.)
This series of poetic story about one of these dives. 8 years, I gave myself one pretty strange places: Orshinsky moss. This is one of the largest wetlands in Europe, which when it was mined peat. Lasted 8 years, my dive. 8 years old, I watched through the prism of a peat sincerely admitting the possibility of getting it in all the senses. 8 years of love huge deserted empty piece of land covered with moss and lakes. The main subject is no longer act within the image, and a body of work - born from the fact of living selfhood me as an author in this state of immersion. I take the data plots on abandoned peat extraction is then impregnated paper peat, oil and varnish and take the photos with the shooting again, sometimes leaving a few months to lay on some abandoned tower. The final step is the act of diving to the bottom of the deepest lakes in the vicinity of peat. Only there, closes the ring steps and the meaning and the body gets its shape becomes a real fetish conductor (where they touch hands Miroslav Tichý). After all, it's not as printing, and other tech. Characteristics of the image, they (work) only tickets to the Bolshoi Theater, located in nutria each of us. Artifacts of this presentation.
This series shows the mystical attitude to photography as an instrument in the presence of self-existence. Own work - there are consequences experiences of this fact selfhood. In my case it is a direct binding to the turf as the medium of the inner presence. Peat in some sense - a hidden source of energy, but in my case How to Wednesday metaphor of life, real life, who lived great people.
The same series - reply industrial society, brought to the art of photography topic empty duplicating images. More recently, a few decades ago, the picture greatly appreciated, as in the earlier period it carried the status of sacred artifact. Now walking down the street, we do not even notice as stepping on the leaflets which can be shown anything from paintings by Van Gogh. In this series, I try to show the mystical attitude to photography. Namely, places and artifacts on Earth starring data subjects is further used as a material, that is - in the peat soaked paper.