Solaris 2012 Oil on canvas, mounted on a wooden stretcher frame — 100 × 80 cm / 39.4 × 31.5 in While painting Solaris, I entered Stanisław Lem’s alien world, where human longing and memory collide with the impossible. I sought to capture his paradox: “We don’t seek other worlds, only a mirror of ourselves. We strive for contact and yet never attain it. Man needs a man.” The painting reflects desire, futility, and our yearning to understand.