I never thought that I would choose a subject of one of my cut-outs that would be politically or socially inspired. Especially, as I grew up in Poland under communist regime when artists were forced, or at least strongly encouraged, …
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In my classroom-Lecture 13: “Shear strength”
In my classroom – Lecture 13: “Shear strength” This piece has been commissioned by a colleague of mine for the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Duke. The commission has wisely been vague on the subject of the opera, …
Dancing on my tail
Dancing on my tail… The expression “dancing on their tail” was for me always appealing as representing something equivalent to a bold or beautiful achievement bordering on impossible. I do not even know where I picked up this expression from. …
Coyotes were sighted !!
Coyotes were sighted !! The whole story started exactly like that. A friend of ours reported during our usual evening walk what she was told by her neighbor about apparently two coyotes been seen near a patch of woods nearby. …
Hundertwasserstrasse (Scenes #17)
Hundertwasserstrasse, 47-65 or The other side The idea for this cut-out came to me as a windfall of my previous cut-out of last year “Visiting Julia” which features a NewYork city-like view, ….. with a left-top shore line detail …
Smokies, Bieszczady, Cevennes…(to Scenes # 16)
Since the first time I visited Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, I have always been under a great spell of these multiple rows of mountain ridges, one after another, until the horizon, and I could not stop counting them, …
Ápres le Deluge, Nous (Scene #15)
T. Hueckel, “Ápres le Deluge, Nous” – May 2015, 20×24 in (50×60 cm) Aha !!! This piece won Public Choice award at Resolutions 2017, 3rd Annual Juried Show in Hillsborough Art Gallery, Hillsborough, NC The subject of Noah’s Arc has …
I just wanted to talk… (Scenes – #12)
“Just wanted to talk…” How often we want to say something to a person, that instead of engaging into conversation is scurrying away from us, perhaps sensing a foreign accent, prefers to keep their distance from an unknown stranger… …
Gentle Jungle – 1 (Scenes #1) (Uprzejma dzungla-1)
Gentle Jungle -1 is one of my first larger pieces, and also the first in the form of a picture. It was cut to the size of our master bedroom window. The idea was to put something on that window …
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Meeting Giacometti’s dog (in Scenes… #6)
Meeting Giacometti’s dog. This piece has a very convoluted inspiration. There is not much in it from the original design, but still, there is something. In April 2012 I attended European Geophysical Union conference in Vienna, an amazing city …
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