This object, a fulgurite, became a bit of an obsession, a symbol and a determinant of my actions in the early 90s. Its difficult to capture energy, light, melting, freezing, creating relationships that are not easy to discover, immateriality caught in a completely material form, tempo. Positive/negative, physical, metaphysical, visible, tangible, obscure, colourful, light and dark. I started to talk about my everyday adventures, observations, thoughts, everyday activities, through the prism and metaphor of fulgurite – a lightning “enchanted” in the root, fossilized reflection of light. I chose the analogue method and technique, I copied the white-green matrices into a back then state-of-the-art colour photocopier, turning them into a negative and receiving pink and black images. I often did not think about the content of particular works, believing that the tool used would combine all the elements of the series into a whole, that the chaos of life at that time would be captured in clear and handy artefacts.

The main Fulgurite series is also accompanied by various preceding tests, samples of the first fulgurite prints, and research into this method. Unfortunately, only a few initial positives have survived, which probably makes technical analysis difficult, but the ones that still exist have become valuable exhibits. Some actions are difficult for me to recall now, I vaguely remember some graphic adventures and basically only the dates noted down help to establish the order of events. There are also works from the latest series, in which I think I have achieved quite a high degree of graphic complexity, multiple layers and intense, saturated color. Years later, I have a peculiar pleasure to observe “that myself” and this slow evolution from simple blind tests to conscious steps and meticulous detail.

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