Three Bodies (2019) Original Ink Drawing by Jarosław Gewinner

The work entitled "Three Bodies" was created in a time of sadness and meditation on the organic aspect of the material world. During this period, my mother suffered from cancer and her condition worsened week by week. That made me realise that we are all mere physical organisms and not immortal gods. Our bodies belong to the natural world, where we come from and return to when the time is right. We are born, mature, flourish, and finally decompose. However, we do not perish, just evolve from a physical state into a spiritual form of being. Throughout a lifetime, our bodies are reborn many times, old cells die and are replaced by new ones. This is a miracle of Nature, little and great at the same time. We ourselves, as physical organisms are composed of complex structures. When I was drawing this work, I listened to the audiobook "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu. This brilliant science fiction novel presents visions of distant millennia, describing the most fantastic, dystopian ideas of the future for our civilization. At that time, I needed to relieve stress and fight depressive thoughts. So I immersed myself in mapping complex structures of the human body and the World. My idea was to capture the micro and macrocosm as fractal phenomena. We can infinitely zoom in and out objects, and they will surprise us with repetitive patterns which come down to mathematical formulas. It places our existence in a strange position like we were being seen by a powerful microscope and even a small shift of a scale would change the field of view, defining us as humans or a completely different form of being. Thinking this way allows us to get some distance to the material world as what we perceive as physical forms is nothing but a subjective vision of our mind.

Materials used:

ink on paper

Details:

• Ink drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 100cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative