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About me
My name is Pavol and I have been painting since I was a child.
But only in recent years this hobby has grown into a real passion. Thinking about the effect of colors, depiction of light, and immersion of some elements in darkness or working with details can absorb me so much that I often stop noticing the time passing by when I stand in front of a canvas.
Through my works, I try to point out the beauty of the human body, nature, its colorfulness, wonders, our smallness, but also our ingenuity. Through others, however, I try to raise the observer from the dust of the mundane and the average in which he moves every day and take him higher, from where the world will seem beautiful and unburdened by shallow difficulties. In other works, I try to confront the observer with darkness, fear, failure, death or an unknown force that he has to resist. At such moment, however, I want to stand by him, hidden in the work, so that I can show him that only in really deep darkness will he notice an inexplicable flash of light that will guide him. I want him to find in my works the strength to continue, not to wait for better conditions, to struggle and not to give up despite an insurmountable obstacle. And I wish that this observer would also become
You.
Shut up and you will be fine
As I mentioned above, I've also come to know the world through writing. I would translate my reflections on life into short stories and then combine them into larger units. In them, the characters reflected on where their own decisions might lead them, on whether it was better to remain silent and live on in comfort or to not deny their character, speak up, and thus suffer the consequences. They wondered what was really important in life.
I've participated in several literary competitions and won several prizes, but the most beautiful result of my writing was the publication of my book by Motýľ publishing house in 2018. I was delighted that my ideas could spread to hundreds of people and that I was able to learn from many of them their own unique perception of the world.
"So what have you come up with? What is it like?"
excerpt from the book
"Think of it as a furnace with huge fire and smoke blazing out of it. Pinching smoke that rises far into space. Small and ugly monsters that live in the sewers keep coming to the furnace and keep mending the fire. They throw in everything they can find, just to keep the fire burning. You and I are also mending the fire, even though we may not be realizing it. And apparently, we are not even supposed to. We are not supposed to think that the smoke we breathe is poisoning our lungs, destroying our health, and that when it rains, all that smoke will be washed into the sewers where we live. We are not supposed to think about it, let alone protest against it, because everybody is mending that fire. It's normal and we are supposed to be normal, too."
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