Marceli Klimek

  All diamonds overlayed together.  Forming a heart with your hands tends to produce a diamond-like shape in the middle stages of the action, just after intention and before completion. Embroidery is likewise an art focused on the process, and certain parallels like the transience and unimportance of the process can be applied to this gesture. Embroidery and various other types of media, like cinema, music, usually don't disclose their working process to the consumer. Not that they’re not important, sometimes it’s to protect specific techniques or ideas from competitors. When designing motifs for my graduate piece, I wanted to effectively distil themes relating to relationships, familial, romantic, and friendly into shapes that could permeate my piece without being noticed outright. Hidden in the final result, whilst being evident in the process. To achieve this, I mimicked the way smear frames capture the feeling of motion in between key frames in movies with multiple distort...

  Closeup photo of "Blueprint" “Blueprint” is about figuring out. Every shape present and outlined with chain stitch and buttonhole represents areas of a city and country I’m unfamiliar with. No city in particular and no country that exists. Just shapes formed from how my hand moved while thinking about people close to me.  The first step in the process is documenting what you don’t know. As far as I know, embroidery is something that I force into helping me understand things. The actualisation of this intention can be an overlapping second layer, working from the order of embroidery, that plays with the first. I chose the buttonhole stitch as a consistent technique in this stage because a neutral element had to be included, one that could represent me. The way your train of thought sticks to a set of tracks when you’re focused on an idea and intention. Appearing in the repetitive and uniform structure of every stitch, that kind of consistency can be related.  Each mix of...

Credit to Atlus Sega, not my designs or composition, I have no idea where this exact promotional art is from but it is very relevant to the text so enjoy. To express yourself you have to believe that there is someone out there that understands you. A fervent bet on something unknown. With it being impossible to truly know how someone sees you from their perspective. You build new versions of yourself with every person you meet.  This is what I believe Persona 4 Dancing All Night represents. The following analysis and review are based on the 2015 video game published by Atlus. It is a spin-off from the main series of Persona games and specifically Persona 4 Golden.  A soundtrack review, looking at the themes behind certain individual tracks but mainly the whole album. Coming from the perspective of someone who knows nothing of music theory or instruments but has played the games and listened to these tracks extensively. A DANCING GAME!!!! Full of remixes of songs from the origi...

Composition: credit to Atlus for persona 4 golden intro cutscene ps vita screenshot and Katya Freydina for modelling, other images consist of personal photography from hanger lane tube station and an Ethel Cain concert captured on ps vita. There is a lot I want out of my art and all of it feels contradictory and overwhelming. Working from music, cinema, the post-impressionist movement, modernist, post-modernist, meta-modernist theories and much more. I’m not confident that I covered all these subjects in the detail that they deserve individually though I stand by the finished product. This isn’t an exercise in retroactively justifying any shortcomings in technical execution or theory. Design decisions in most cases were sporadically led by emotion and thoughts about people and situations happening at the time. Those people, situations and actively acknowledging time in this project created a narrative. A narrative that I believe contributes to a framework which uses the unique qualitie...

  Image Credit: Marceli Klimek, Konrad Kozaczek, Katya Freydina Many of the ideas I put forward for Cuh Opilamonnia Rs were abstract and broad. I want to go into them specifically in future entries in this blog. This is somewhat backwards to how I should talk about this project because this entry is me reviewing my thought processes with information that you, the reader, might not be privy to. Now that this project is complete, there are many things I want to build on because a lot of the beliefs I made my design decisions on were tied to my life and personal experiences. These have proven to evolve since and deserve a resolution or alternate take. So much was everywhere and now I want to limit and contain it. Making this project for a friend, for someone, communicating person to person. Art that excludes a majority audience to prioritise an individual can be for someone the artist knows superficially like a celebrity or a close friend or family member. With the former, true commun...