Filip Raclavský

Things happen from moment to moment; I'm just trying to adapt to them.

Thanks to the Internet and social media, we can quite easily see what is happening far away from us, on the other side of our planet, but at the same time we forget to notice the wonderful things that are right under our noses, in our immediate surroundings. That's probably why I'm aiming for a certain simplification, for a basic perception of colors and shapes; to more ordinary things that I encounter in my neighborhood day after day.

Following that, I spontaneously and instinctively transform all these impulses into certain image collages, created from the thoughts that are running through my head. I am most influenced by animals, symbols, various objects, the landscape, the atmosphere of the village, photographs, books or even personal memories; just anything that interests me enough to find its way onto the canvas.

I am very interested in tension, indecision, melancholy, fatality, and various opposites, and above all beauty, my version of beauty...