A number of latest work by Detroit, Michigan-based artist Michael Polakowski. Centered round psychological well being—the way it frames and contextualizes our view of the world—Polakowski’s work typically function home windows or different visible portals as metaphors for the boundaries between our current lives, and the seemingly far-off idealized world. He elaborates:
“I consider every portray as a possibility to develop upon an ongoing narrative inside my work, a story the place the protagonist is grappling with discovering a way of self, sustaining presence of their atmosphere, and connecting to the world round them. Nonetheless, these summary concepts are often depicted in scenes like stolen vehicles deserted in a river-bed, or harrowing tales of a lone explorer misplaced in a metaphysical desert. With my work, I’m at all times making an attempt to strike a stability between ‘heaviness’ and ‘lightness.’ That’s why, at first look, my work is vividly coloured and populated with inviting imagery. It’s solely via additional investigating the connection between the photographs that the deeper narrative surfaces.”
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