oil on canvas,
100 x 80 cm,
signed.
Tommy Pniewski (born 1988), artist and architect with Polish roots. He was born in New York. He graduated from Oxford Brooks University with a bachelor's degree in architecture. At Oxford, he received a scholarship for his research on the influence of the Baroque on contemporary architecture. He also received an award for the most creative paper of the year.
Author's comment: In order to tie the artwork to the ground, that is, to give it a real context, the decision was made to bury the canvas in the ground and leave it there throughout the winter. The result is a canvas that "absorbed" the pressure of earth, leaves, snow, rain, roots and wind. The canvas had a connection to terroir. Terroir is a French word that describes the "taste of the earth," often described in wine or food. Terroir left its mark on the canvas, creating a geographical plane for me to paint. Then I thought about the human subject; the way we are born from earthly matter and then return to it after death. Pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris. So I considered two states of the human body: the beginning and the end, the old man and the young child.
