About Jan
Jan lives and works in Warsaw. He was born in 1983. He spent a significant part of his childhood in a very small village in the Polish mountains, and one of his first memories is the smell of freshly chopped wood. In a way, nature remains one of his strongest sources of inspiration.
Oils, colored pencils, and drawing ink are Jan's favorite mediums. He feels he experiences art to the fullest when working directly on paper. This requires constant focus and is always a form of a metaphysical journey. Paper limits the scope for modifications; it does not allow you to fix your mistakes and, hence, demands your full concentration.
All those people from the old photographs. They had their days.They felt, and they were felt. And now it's been like what? 60years? 80? 100? I feel no difference between their days andfeelings and mine. That's what it is about for me. Creating is onething; time traveling is another. And they both work together.It's a journey without traveling at all. Clothes have changed,haircuts too—no obligatory hats today. That's all; the rest is thesame.
I like the scenes, gestures, shapes of the bodies, body language,and interactions. I observe what is happening or what I imagineto be happening. Groups of people. How they were together inthat single moment which came and went. Just like us now, dayby day, in the streets, on the beaches, working or walking.
I like to think about how for some of them, who could todayexist only in a single photograph buried somewhere deep in anonline archive, it could be the last time someone really looks atthem. So let's look at them once more, together, through myeyes.
