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  Ludwika OGORZELEC Sculptor In situ
 
 

Space crystallization

The space crystallization " is a system of lines intersecting one another with a certain order and modifying the previously determined space both physically and in its use.
In other words, it is a shattering of space into smaller components " crystals " whose purpose is to achieve a new aesthetic and psychological state that acts on the conscious and the subconscious mind of observer.

A person following the picture created by the moving line experience the necessity of adjusting to the spatial situation producing motions of the body (bending, ducking or stepping around) which is a form of dance, simultaneously experiences states that go beyond the boundaries of quotidian stereotypes, behavioural codes and habits.

The activity of space is a result of the meeting of the " entrancing energy " and the " extrinsic energy " imparted by the line to the space.

The intrinsic energy is everything that is characteristic of a given space the architectonic idea behind it, its proportion, width, height, length, the materials of which it is composed (concrete, metal, wood, plaster etc. audits function an office building church, a city square, landscape) and is the way that it commonly experienced by the observer.

In my works, line speaks with the qualities of the material from which the work is made, the picture which it creates (various ordering and geometry, chaos, concentrations, shattering, rhythms, contrasts, similarities, the relationship between filled and not filled space) and the shape of line (simple, wavy, vertical or inclined). This is the extrinsic energy.

The objective act is the material from which line is made whereas the "subjective act" oftentimes makes its activity and meaning the first felt. For example, wood which is light, warm, with light hues, and created by nature with her internal and external form, touches the aesthetic sense of observer. Metal , on the other hand, is cold, heavy, with could colours technological and difficult to turn touches rather anti-aesthetic sensibilities. Glass which is cold and heavy but clear in contact.

Ludwika Ogorzelec 1999