Krystyna Laycraft

"Visual Consciousness", 2005, mixed media, 24"x24"

My last trip to Poland was rich in interesting bifurcation points. During my visit at the Museum of Art in Lodz, I have learnt about Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1893 -1952) - an artist - painter, theoretician, pedagogue, social-artist activist, and visionary. Strzeminski defined art as the creation of the organic unity of forms, parallel to nature, which was basis assumption of his theory and artistic parctice of Unisom. He stated that "Line and color are interconnected, interdependent, and form unity."

Painting "Visual Consciousness is based on Strzeminski's abstract composition no 40, 1933. I include there his portrait and famous sentence:"In the process of seeing it is not important what the eye catches mechanically, but what man consciously realize from the process of seeing". .

Gallery III