A Creative Path Of A Friend, By Jówski Czerniawski

For over half a decade now, I have been having an undeniable pleasure of observing a creative path of my friend, an outstanding painter, Józef Czerniawski.
Easel painting, large-format wall painting, performance, stage design both for movie and theatre, and interior design constitute just a part (fragment) of his artistic activity field. Immense abundance [great richness] of means, the variety of materials contribute to this continuously vivid, creative and revelatory [exploratory] path. The determination, with which J. Cz. manically circles, like a moth, around certain painterly issues, connected especially with the op art vision of perceiving reality, provokes (us?) to look for the origins of his interests and choices. Following the full
I am getting back to it, for [since] I am convinced, that the fundamental cause of all [entire] actions, moves, decisions is this, which lies [stays] in the darkness [gloom; obscurity] of oblivion, and which as subconscious does not allow for any rationality or logic in the choice making. It is a story from the earliest school years, relating to a situation in the changing room, where protruding from the wall two-meter high moving rows of racks would terrify him. Is it possible that J. Cz. would compensate for his long-time stress through creating in his paintings situations, of which he would possess a full control, and by introducing [implementing] a taming of space, he provides himself a feeling of harmony and
I am alone with myself [I am on my own with myself]. I can do anything. Me, the creator [the maker]. But – if we treat [take] this issue seriously – it always turns out to be a self-portrait. Today all of my rigs [rig-outs] fell away [down], I stand naked, and as in the case of [as it comes to] an author, there is something to look at or there is not. To make it clear, to make it clear [for the sake of clarity] – clarity should there be in any [each] matter – it needs to be known, that not everything depends on me, [no] it does not, after all, in a partnership creator-viewer [audience], it is the latter one, who is an equally significant [relevant], or perhaps an even more significant [relevant]