Janusz Wrobel
The Act of Seeing.
Continuously evolving exhibition projects.
At the current level of public support, financing public exhibitions at a public or private galleries is unattainable. I continue to maintain an active interest in perfecting the field of my art endeavour. So, my virtual project presentations evolve.
Time, perceived as the progression of events and consequences, holds an edifying quality. So, a decade later, I felt it necessary to implement revisions to my exhibition project presented in the Art Gallery of Burlington. Back then, I alluded to processes in my verbal commentary. Their acceleration and clarity of consequences, however, persuades me to be further forthcoming with my views on their assessment and roots.
I appreciate minutes of your attention to it and passing it along. The living is molded by contribution, and democracy is an art form of it.
The prospect of being a grandparent forced upon me the need for world's assessment my heir was coming to.
Comparing goals, I had, and their realization in the changing world. What were the odds stack for the
upcoming new life as I saw them?
I found a small island to do it, still outside the network coverage, and regular daily influences and distractions.
I assigned a new name to this island. The Fossil Island.
I returned to images I recorded back then a decade later, and to the trajectories of my thoughts and their present evolution.
(Under construction)
From its beginning, photography has served as a document of social realities. I used it this capacity in what was to be an ongoing documentary project of Hamilton. The intention was to encapsulate in a single photograph an issue brought to public attention by the city’s mass media.
“I Take Back My City” was a parallel project that used these photographs as the canvas for active public interactions with the captured, my interpretations of these issues. As a result, it became the records of changing society, illustrating the loss of communal identities and the social fragmentation
in the information age.
(Currently, under pending revisions.)
Past Exhibition projects.
Past can be relevant while creating new ideas and projects only if it serves as a registry of progress and failures in steps already taken.