Warsaw Uprising

68th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising. Find out more.

Drawing of a Polish Infantry Captain Uniform + Photoshop Edit.

iStone

iStone

Interactive stone sculpture

music from an iPhone 4 speaker is amplified by the stone

Portland stone

May 2012

600mm x 260mm x 130mm

Untitled (Hymn to the Sea)

Untitled (hymn to the sea)

Site-specific sculpture

Wood, rope

May 2012

Dimensions variable

Together/Apart

Two photographs taken in Portland, Dorset. Inspired by how fragile love/relationships can be.

http://www.waytoeminence.com/#/artist-karol-michalec/4563547936

a designer's write up for Way To Eminence. Have a look. explains a few questions about my art!

something that's always bugged me.

Way To Eminence

An image of mine was commissioned by an emerging Birmingham brand and produced on their first series of Tshirts. Visit their website on fb! Way To Eminence

and theres a picture of me wearing my baby:

http://statigr.am/ygbrighton

visit.

Letter of complain

a collage.

Jaye.

Photo Collages with wonderful Jaye.

meet Adam & Albert

Watercolour paintings:

Adam

Albert

This piece of work is inspired by the humble phone and it's influence in life of many young men. It's a tool of socialising and self-promotion quite often taken for granted. the messages and stories within them paint an image of the owner and in broader spectrum one of a modern society.


photo collage + watercolour

Sketchbook scans.

Few sketches worth having a look at.

Poker Chip painting

...getting ready for the Quuer & Feminist exhibition in May.

"Hole in the Whole"

Studio practice. If the large area of British flag responds to the population of UK, the small rectangle is the percentage of Polish people within the UK accordingly; it is also the Polish flag.

"Bloodline"

Studio practice, pushing the idea of knives forward (and outside)

"Echoes"

Art installation, 17 Feb 2012.

[cutlery, fabric, blood]

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Anti-ACTA

ACTA is a plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and copyright infringement on the Internet, and would create a new governing body outside existing forums, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, or the United Nations. 


That's the legal stuff. If you don't know about it yet, you'll find out soon. ACTA will block the freedom of internet as we know it. We've all got a voice.

Wislawa Szymborska Tribute...?!

Today around noon I took an art exercise. I wrote part of poem "Water" by my favourite poet - (Wislawa Szymborska, a 1996 Nobel Prize winner) layered in two languages on a piece of card. I then took photos of it in water. didnt think much of that project.

Wislawa Szymborska died an hour ago aged 89. I never experienced such weird coincidence regarding my work, its inspiration and tribute. RIP.

below one of the poems, sadly, this one is on death.


A Cat in an Empty Apartment
Wislawa Szymborska

Die? One does not do that to a cat. Because what's a cat to do in an empty apartment? Climb the walls. Caress against the furniture. It seems that nothing has changed here, but yet things are different. Nothing appears to have been relocated, yet everything has been shuffled about. The lamp no longer burns in the evenings. Footsteps can be heard on the stairway, but they're not the ones. The hand which puts the fish on the platter is not the same one which used to do it. Something here does not begin at its usual time. Something does not happen quite as it should Here someone was and was, then suddenly disappeared and now is stubbornly absent.

All the closets were peered into. The shelves were walked through. The rug was lifted and examined. Even the rule about not scattering papers was violated. What more is to be done? Sleep and wait. Let him return, at least make a token appearance. Then he'll learn that one shouldn't treat a cat like this. He will be approached as though unwillingly, slowly, on very offended paws. With no spontaneous leaps or squeals at first.