Set, 2026

Photopolymer on paper

Artwork “Set” is part of the project entitled “A Pencil Has Two Ends”. Photopolymer print series “Set” is a collection or set of pencils from the graphics art department community. Behind each pencil are individual creative positions, ideas, and creators. In many cases, a pencil is only the initial starting line for a creator. We mostly do have quite a few of them lying around, but each of us has a chosen one, the most beloved, best, most valuable one for ourselves. Therefore, unwilling to part ways. It was the documentation with photopolymer print that allowed me to gather the collection into one. With printmaking, as if in a pencil factory, I can multiply them if I want. In the background of some pencils, various tones of working surfaces appear. In the general display, it is like a scale of pencil possibilities. Your choice to be H or 10B, hard or soft, in your position. The project “Pencil Has Two Ends” explores graphite as a matter and its connection to the world. The project is a study of graphite as a material and a “simple” graphite pencil. The field of research includes the use of graphite in the military and nuclear energy industries in the production of diamonds and pencils. I examine the pencil as an object, matter, and as an idea, looking from the historical, political, military, and nuclear industry perspectives. Through the hexagonal crystal system, I seek a connection with power and the power of the artist. Under extremely high pressure and temperature, graphite turns into a diamond. Diamonds a metaphor – wealth, money, fossil fuels, mines, territory. Why a pencil? The main artwork’s line of the narrative becomes a simple graphite pencil, as real, from the artist’s position and metaphorically – the everyday life, position of power equivalent. The project considers whether the one whose pencil set is the biggest is the hardest (coolest)?

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