We Have Art in Order not to Die of Truth

                                                             Friedrich Nietzsche

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Marta Mazur, Artist

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As a girl I lived in Warsaw. Those were 1970s in Poland and kids did not have much but their imagination. One of my favorite play times was to find small items, flowers from the nearby field, pieces of color paper, or silver foil, and combine them into designs. The designs would be then covered by broken glass. I didn't know it was beginning of art.  A small, hand made glass stain window in a background of communistic concrete.

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Years later, inspired by that childish game, I designed ARTMUS.

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ARTMUS is an art form that combines many techniques and elements: acrylic and alcohol paints, dry pigments, and acrylic markers. Painted Plexiglas surface is set in handmade woodwork and resin for endurance. To give it an effect of brilliance, ARTMUS has fashioned LED lights for a stain glass effect.

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Artmus is not only about the past. The ideas behind paintings are inspired by the changing world full of stirring and many times volatile concepts. This world, through technology comes so close to my door, and now I feel more familiar with places I didn't know existed. I feel for people who live there and I shed negative concepts that once I may have carried. I long for smaller and more familiar communities and in the same time I imagine open borders and people moving freely where they wish. A world full of creativity and possibility.

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This project became me…it followed me through the years…it grew and defined me, and it will die with me helping me to close the mystery of being.