Path
Łukasz Pompa
2021
Poland
18 min.
Virtualpro
Path
The movie “Path” is a short documentary, who`s protagonist is Grzegorz Frydyk. Born and living in Rzeszów artist works in graphics, painting and drawing. He`s a lecturer at the University of Rzeszów at the graphics major. At 36 he was diagnosed with Parkinson`s disease. With the worsening of the disease his creative work and everyday existence started to be a bigger and bigger challenge. With help for the artist came an experimental treatment method, to which he was assigned because of his young age. Despite his challenges he`s trying to continue his artistic work.
In the movie “Path” we see the protagonist working on the next parts of a series of graphics “About constant prayer” when he`s struggling not only with the matter and the technique of the workshop graphics, but also with the results of the progressive disease. A work from the series “About constant prayer” can be made from one or more individual copper tiles, with extensively and finely written forming a sentence “Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me”, looking completely abstract in that mass and duplication. Creation of such tile is time-consuming and demands continuous writing of the same sentence, engraving with a small chisel on a copper sheet in a mirror image. It seems that its message gives the artist strength and the power to overcome physical limitations.
“Words of that prayer have been accompanying me constantly for a few years. They are a relief for me, they guide me through difficult troubles and give me hope. In today`s world we live with constant accumulation of different words and information. This prayer is the opposite – it`s honest and simple. So simple, that misunderstood, sometimes perceived as calling from a place of guilt. It`s a misconception. The prayer introduces a different reality, to understand it you have to enter it and experience it.
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