Photograph taken next to my artwork “Waking life” By Michael Mroczek, 2021

        My practice is interested in the human experience and emotional states surrounding it. The starting point is a profound life experience. Once the life experience solidifies in waking life, it becomes a memory with a specific energy. Then I start to discover visual outcomes from the subjects analysing the stirring matter to me and a broader audience. Artworks aim to express pre-rationalised ideas from an emotionally driven space. Eventually, I noticed a similar pattern in my dreams - the subconscious mind is projecting ideas that aren't fully resolved in our waking life but trigger us emotionally. Most of it would be fragments of memory from waking life. Although, while researching S. Freud, I found parts of his research talking about eleven per cent that possibly has nothing to do with our waking life. And even the ones that come from our waking life are so obscure because of their travels through layers of the conscious and subconscious mind - it becomes surrealistic. It gains polysemic concepts within it. John Rafman's "Dream journal" was a big inspiration to me, the way he speaks about curating the craft of searching, selecting, and editing together materials pulled from corners of the web. My process is like that. I document my own story of a dream that's vivid and impressive. Render details of that vision and pick out the most engaging segments.

 

        I'm a multidisciplinary artist, and my concept influences the choice of the way I fabricate the artwork. For example, the piece "Elements of the subconscious in a dream collage" was made from a carpet; the material represented a coalition between two feelings of comfort and what's beyond it. I make live-sized sculptures to make them interactable so that a viewer can get closer to the feeling I'm analysing: shape patterns, depth, and perspective unlock the intuitive.

       

        I produce my work to communicate my deepest thoughts, sometimes let things go myself, entertain the audience, and inspire them to dream and imagine. Art absorbs the entirety and expresses the whole, giving the shape to unknown and teaching us to feel more deeply. It makes me excited. That's how I learn and am true to myself while creating. 

 

        A creative community is essential to fulfil my life, and I want to commute in this field while I am. That gives me a perfect reason to continue doing what I'm passionate about. I hope collective consciousness will recognise the ideas and solutions I discuss in my work.