Trąbka do słuchania stołu 2019

Lech Jankowski made this drawing with graphite on paper. The title translates to “Trumpet for Listening to the Table.” It’s so simple, and yet, it gets you thinking, right? I imagine Lech with his pencil, circling, circling, circling, building up this enormous ear-like form, almost like a vortex. It's dark, and shadowy, and intensely focused. And then, these light, almost tentative lines that form the table. It's a table that looks like it’s been through a lot. I wonder, was he trying to listen to his own thoughts? Was the table a stand-in for something else, a conversation maybe? Or was he simply trying to capture the quiet hum of everyday objects? Maybe he knew that art invites us to listen in new ways, to hear the whispers in the world around us. It reminds me of Magritte, or even Guston, artists who weren’t afraid to mix the ordinary with the strange. We artists are all in conversation, riffing off each other, trying to make sense of this crazy world.