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Revista Inside Its:
Are you anyhow related to Brazil ?
Sylwia Gorak: - When I was a student I've met Brazilian artist Mona Shikida who was in Poland in student-exchange program . She told me a lot about Brazil , art and culture there so I really got interested :) She was young conceptual artist at that time , so we had same interests and talking artistic ideas. Cooperation with George Bento and Graziella Barduco is my next step :)
Revista Inside Its: What is your
relationship with ecological art-projects and eco-artistic activity ? Sylwia Gorak: - I paint man-made object in contemporary landscape. The motifs (items) are chosen according to concept or idea, giving them new meaning by painting them . My ideas are usually based on the observed objects that one can find in the field or forest . Showing them in a special context the new meaning is born. I am a fan of science and sci-fi literature. In 2008 in Headlands Centre Of The Arts in California, I've made a project based on a book of Alan Weisman "The world without us". The book is a very independent vision (based on scientific studies) of how will the world look like if humankind disappear . While reading this book I become aware of " time ". It also gave me consciousness of durability of everything that is made by men .I have been always fascinated of nature as
a "zoo animal that has never accepted its cage". This book describes nature as a very powerful strength and shows future ecology in a new very optimistic way.The most durable man-made stuff is plastic or bakelite . Certain common plastics might remain intact for hundreds of thousand of years they would not break down until microbes evolved the ability to consume them. It seems that plastic debris or objects would last forever .Would geologists millions of years hence find Barbie and Ken doll parts? Would they be intact enough to be pieced together like dinosaur bones? At the same time, art of painting is the most nondurable. Ninety –five percent of all artwork ever made doesn't exist anymore. That's way my project was called ' POLYMERS ARE FOREVER' and was executed as painting and drawing :) Conscious paradox :) I also try to be involved in ecological-art