Arts Thread

This project is about observing the world, especially the nature around Orava, region in the north of Slovakia, to which I am constantly returning and enjoying nature existence. This visits are one of the form of my contemplation. It is such as stop from the fast world, where I can be with myself, think, meditate and create. I was looking quiet and peaceful places, and photographed views I was interested in. I took pictures on large-format camera Graflex and medium-format camera Pentacon. I inserted paper into this cameras and exposed directly to the paper. There are a series of negatives that cannot be reproduce, as well as the moment we experience. I composed the negatives and created abstract-concrete images. (I also created negatives because we live in a time when being positive is not desirable.) The whole process, from the preparing a sensitive paper, searching, finding, exposing and then developing and experimenting, is for me a fascination leading to contemplation. Contemplation is very necessary nowadays and the environment in which I find myself, allows me to have these moments of meditation.