Solaris
2012, Oil on canvas,
mounted on a wooden stretcher frame —
100 x 80 cm / 39.4 x 31.5 in.

While painting Solaris, I was drawn into the alien world Stanisław Lem imagined—a place where human longing and memory collide with the impossible. I sought to capture the paradox he described: “We don't want to conquer space; we want to expand Earth endlessly. We don’t seek other worlds, only a mirror of ourselves. We strive for contact and yet never attain it. Man needs a man.” On canvas, this became a reflection of desire and futility, a dialogue between selves and the worlds they yearn to understand.