The Restoration of All Things
The series uses found, highly corroded, steel industrial objects collected from the banks of the Wisła River (and elsewhere) to highlight the erosional process of rust and the tendency for it to return man-made angular objects to more naturalistic shapes, reminiscent of organic forms.
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In the derustification process, some pieces are ground down, filed, sanded, and brought to a polish. Others are left pitted and textured.
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The pieces, having once served a function, became broken, lost, or discarded. Something useful became useless. They began to decay and the natural process of entropy started to reshape their surfaces.
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By restoring the work, the items no longer retain their former purpose, which begs the question of the role they now serve. They are in a lesser physical state compared with their original form - having been damaged and beaten, and rendered functionless to some degree. But through their transformation they have also transcended their original design to an achieve an elevated condition independent of purpose that is possibly more beautiful.
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Thus, the scars that shape us allow a life to be greater than one without them.