ABOUT

Picture by Oleg Burdzenia

HOLISTIC ART

My work tells stories of the body—its wounds and resilience, its crossings between worlds. Born from surgeries, visions, and altered states, each series traces how flesh, memory, and spirit converge. From the scars of Big Heads to the visionary Avatars, from portals of remembrance to cellular constellations, these works ask: how can art gather the lost fragments of consciousness, and reveal our interconnection with the universe?

From Big Heads, born in intensive care after forty-seven head surgeries, to the ongoing Avatars, shaped by visions in quantum healing hypnotherapy, my practice traces how the body carries us through pain and transformation.

Other works—Portals of Remembrance and As Above, So Below—open to out-of-body journeys and silk-painted explorations of unseen dimensions. In Histology of the Soul, pandemic reflections on cellular imagery become luminous abstractions, created with UV pigments in dialogue with scientific research.

Across all series, I return to one question: how can art restore the lost fragments of consciousness, and reveal our deep interconnection with the universe and the memory of who we are and who we came here to become.

My art derives directly from experience, is born of necessity. Art wasn't a choice, but a survival instinct which became means of survival. I started seriously practicing art when I was 16 years old and was first diagnosed with AVM given two years to live. Life, it seemed, had other plans.

At sixteen, facing the shadow of mortality, I became an object, a case study for the medical gaze. 47 surgeries over 27 years—a relentless battle against the bleedings. Through it all, art became my sanctuary, a way to paint the transcendent visions that flickered in the liminal spaces between life and death, born from operative traumas and brushes with the abyss.

After a nighttime haemorrhage I underwent a profound near-death experience (NDE) and yet a profound shift began. The darkness of depression and figurative representation gave way to an all-encompassing light, a lightness that now permeates my work, a testament to transformation. My art is my story, a spectrum of experiences and challenges, a reclaiming of power over a destiny that once seemed written in blood.

My practice seeks to capture the delicate connection between body, mind, and spirit, a yearning for harmony in the spaces between.

And now, the quest expands. A new series, The Avatars, takes root, inspired by a hypnotherapy session, a glimpse into an intergalactic family. It revealed a truth: our bodies are not just vessels for living, but intricate technologies for healing, for journeying, for reaching beyond the confines of the physical.

‘FACES OF AGATA’ by Małgorzata Kozera

Agata’s life story is the subject of an immensely powerful and thought-provoking documentary on the meaning of suffering. “Faces of Agata”, a collage of experiences of a person who wants to live despite adversity, premiered at the Krakow film festival in 2023 and won the coveted Golden Hobby-Horse award for the best documentary over 30 mins.

Updates on the documentary available on Facebook and Instagram pages under ‘Faces of Agata’