While studying Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow most of my friends were artists with whom I attended many wild parties.
Some were painters; others were sculptors, performance artists, stage designers, architects, musicians..
I took portraits of some of them, and they used those images for interviews, catalogues, which accompany their exhibitions, while I did show these photographs at my exhibitions.
One of them, Maciej Jerzmanowski, organised happenings and land-art projects, and my role here was much more elaborate.
It was so because his art was ephemeral, shown just once and then evaporated. The only records were my photographs.
And here is a sample of such event –Jerzmanowski covered a slope just outside Krakow with a geometrical grid using paper tapes. It was like taking over a natural environment by his design. It was a purest expression of what we do since ancient times, when planning towns, cities, army bases and many other urban spaces.
I am grateful to all those artists, because they taught me how to compose images in such a manner that they tell the story.
After all creating art is to compose it, so it can be presented to others.