This is
one of the works from the cycle "Anthropocene". In this cycle I deal
with humanity's ability to transform large landscape units for our own needs
using modern technological processes. Often without regard to the possible consequences. The transformation of the landscape then
changes not only its external appearance, but ultimately also the behavior of
the flora and fauna, which is either completely destroyed or partially adapts
within large landscape areas. This change affects both biological and geological processes not only in
a given location, but on the entire planet. And this has a negative impact on human society. Some paintings from the “Anthropocene” cycle
are created using a combined technique, in which I bring characteristic
materials from the depicted location (coal, local deposits, pigments, etc.),
which I incorporate into the painting along with other materials such as
synthetic asphalt, ash, coffee and natural pigments. The resulting painting is then partly made up
of materials from the given area, which help to complete the authenticity of
the painting.
The painting depicts the wastewater landscape of the Darkov deep coal
mine in Moravian Silesia. A monotonous landscape formed by wastewater lakes,
which are divided by artificially piled dams made of clay, stones and tailings
excavated from the mines. The trees in the lake have long since died, the
trees on the artificial embankments, if they have not died, are fighting for
their bare lives. The birds, who have nowhere to hide, have
disappeared. The pictorial composition resembles a prehistoric
millipede, an arthropod, that made its way through a Carboniferous primeval
forest swamp. A swamp that after hundreds of millions of years
turned into coal basins. A line made of crushed coal runs along the axis of
the image like the spine of a strange creature.
