HISTOLOGY OF THE SOUL

Paintings for the new world- portals to the other realm

This series is inspired by pictures of body tissues and cells taken under microscope. The word ‘histology’ means microscopic anatomy. 

Histology of the Soul" series, painted largely using the photochromic technique.

This technique involves UV light reacting with pigments on the canvas, causing colors to intensify within seconds. The intensity of the light directly influences the speed and depth of color change.

The series began in 2019 during the pandemic and continued throughout lockdowns. I became interested in this technique after undergoing another MRI scan. After 24 years of hospital treatments and numerous head scans, I finally understood the nature of my condition, known as AVM - an arteriovenous malformation that reacts to various external environmental factors such as excessive light, heat, stress, and others. A few years earlier, my cousin Jarek had shown me some photos of tissue under a microscope, which I found fascinating. Combining images of human tissue scans, the inner world, and the microscopic world with the photochromic technique, which perfectly symbolizes the passage of time, seemed ideal. The word histology refers to histopathology, but with a difference: it relates not to the body but to the spirit, the essence, what we are made of, and what defines our physicality, giving it expression and shape.

The choice of technique was not accidental. It was not easy to paint this series, especially in London, where I live and where it often rains, is dark, and there is little light. I often had to put my work outside, on the street, or on the roof, to see what I had managed to paint. A large part of the series was created in Majorca during the second lockdown, where there was no shortage of sunlight.

The "Histology of the Soul" is a symbolic series that shows our inner world, which, despite its abstraction, is immense and absorbing in its depth.

PART 1

Works on silk with acrylic and silk paint

PART 2

Light sensitive works. Works on silk with photochromic and termochromia paint

These monochrome pieces will develop into colour when exposed to light and heat.

PART 1

Ink, watercolour, mixed media on silk

PART 2

Pictures demonstrate gradual change of colour

Pictures demonstrate gradual change of colour

Colour changingPictures demonstrate gradual change of colour

Pictures demonstrate gradual change of colour

Pictures demonstrate gradual change of colour