Lech Janerka — Time for Evil

I create multilayered visual forms. I combine new technologies with dense, condensed graphic matter and a sensitivity to color. I work with digitally generated 2D and 3D images, manually created content, and post-produced photographic and video materials. I create graphics, animations, and interactive installations that generate images in real time.

I juxtapose aesthetically disparate elements, creating new associations, connections, and worlds where the key processes are the transformation and redefinition of the image, its multilayered nature, associative potential, and variability. I am less interested in aesthetics, intellectual, and emotional message, and more interested in the image as a phenomenon: how it is created, how it changes, and how it resonates in the viewer's perception.

In animation, I add the dynamics of change to the aesthetic visual keys of the image. A single frame, lasting a fraction of a second, ceases to weigh. It ceases to last. It passes away. What gains significance is time, sequentiality, the relationship between images, resonance with sound, and the afterimage left in the viewer's mind.

In interactive installations, I treat programming code as a digital matrix—a creative medium that allows images to be generated using graphic elements, simulation of chance, and encountered reality. The viewer not only perceives but also co-creates the work. Their presence influences the final, unpredictable image. As the author, I define the rules but do not control the final artwork. I combine the remembered with the live-recorded, clash times, and build a new dimension of perception. I create a space for dialogue between the viewer and the image.

I perceive seeing as the ultimate act of creation. It is the viewer who creates a print of the encountered fragment of reality, treated in the form of an "artwork" as a matrix on the substrate of their mind, where experiences, memories, superstitions, clichés, paradigms, and prejudices mix with and redefine the perceived element. Everyone sees differently. Everyone sees something different. The image passes, but it leaves a trace that will immediately be redefined by the next image.

This project is the culmination of a forty-year personal journey through Janerka’s poetry—a space of freedom that has resonated within me since my youth. This animation was born not from a commission, but from a profound internal need to translate his linguistic universe into a multilayered visual form, seeking a point where sound and image meet to redefine the viewer's perception.