Misiak's abstraction is a visualised pattern of everything that surrounds us, it reveals a hidden meaning that can only be seen by changing our perception. By painting, Michał Misiak meditates. In the end, it is difficult to decide what is the result, the act of painstakingly working with a hand- drawn line leads the painter into meditation, at the same time as it influences the paintings he creates. Contemplation, the clearing of the mind of intrusive thoughts, unwanted discourses, and ramblings, allows one to reach deeper. What does this mean? Liberation, opening to the truth, insight into oneself, getting to the essence of things. Abstract images allow this truth to be conveyed. They are a link between dimensions, resonating to create a space right in front of the canvas, a kind of energy released from between lines, figures, and colours. Our sight reads the tensions between colours, between frequencies, it reads tonal transitions, the real and the erroneous, it reads lines, their rhythms, arrangements, repetitions, and illusions. Eyes confused by geometric arrangements that end and begin again with every glance, get tired under the constant attempt to put the whole in order. 

Looking at the painting becomes hypnotic, the tired mind, which, as during meditation, begins to give up, ignores indirect stimuli. This state is paramount throughout Misiak's painting, as it creates a shared space, a common viewer-artist connection.
Meditation can affect frequencies, to create change physically - this is the power of Michal Misiak's paintings. If we can feel an abstract painting physically, this is it.



Adriana Mazur

photo: Michał Misiak