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Water

The face of the water, in all its states, is as mysterious as a human face.

It reveals as much as it can hide.

* The commissioning artwork to the specific size and finish by the client is subject to an individual quote. The client will receive virtual (in situ) proposals before order placement. A deposit of 25% is required to place an order.

** Finished works are archival quality photographs mounted and coated with Timeless Veneer on classic painter panels with black satin floating frames. Virtual image placement in the client setting is available free of charge.

Janusz Wrobel
Art Photography

I can only define reality by the state of my relationships with the world around me.

Wind and water currents shape the surface of the Montreal River below the Golden Stairs waterfalls, Ontario

If a single word view has numerous meanings, can I expect a viewer to see the same thing in the image above as I do? Or that we can all draw agreeable conclusions about what this image represents; a picture of art or reality? The first choice offers boundless space between wants, dreams and desires. The second carries the opposite connotation, and who doesn't want to escape it?

Spring scene from Minesing Wetlands in Ontario

The word landscape in arts is generally associated with the representation of land in a way that pleases our senses. The images above and below represent lands in southern Ontario that are nearby. What then if they looked the opposite way in the past?

The low water level in Great Lakes exposes vast stretches of otherwise submerged bedrock of the Canadian Shield.

The world alive evidently survives by carving out an orderly space of living conditions in the physical world, where a natural state of matter is a disorder.

It takes time to fully realize what it does mean. And time is catching up with reality for all of us, and sooner than anyone expected to.

The cast shadow of a man and the fire damage of the Great Canadian Shield environment.

How to see the future? Isn't it an outcome of a collision between what we want and what the world can supply? After all, we all need oxygen in every breath we take and foot on a table. Casualties have no voice in the narratives that follow them.

Urban building with connections to municipal infrastructure mounted on the outside wall painted with natural landscape motives.

The world around us is full of meanings. One can notice glimpses of them better when a need to communicate them arises. Assembling them is a process, like everything else, like reality, a chain of linked consequences. Seeing them is meaningful itself.

"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."
Susan Sontag, American writer.