Michal Martychowiec - Destination

The series "Destination: The Magic Mountain" and "Heavenly coppice" were created in a place where I used to spend many summers as a child.
Years had passed and I had only vague memories of the place: a house surrounded by impenetrable swamps from one and a forest from the other side. If one managed to go through the forest, suddenly from the shade, a scape of the open fields, burned with the sun, would appear. In a distance: a lonely mountain. Such view awakened certain feelings and impressed particular image in my memory. And so, after many years, one winter I returned. To look for the lost time, and perhaps the lost self, that was left somewhere there, at the mountain?

On the way "I came to myself within a dark wood". I looked in the paintings, images of my memory, for the path, the exit. Or perhaps the entrance. Still hesitant whether i should pursue the three golden hounds like the golden fleece?

"Destination: The Magic Mountain", borrowing its name from Thomas Mann’s novel, is a series which records the journey towards the mountain, towards my own identity and the destination of my very own existence. The path is not straight and simple, midway upon the journey, a forest arouses, bringing before me the images of memory, history and imagination - all full of delusions.