Light Pompeian Animals 2017

Lech Jankowski conjured "Light Pompeian Animals," a small painting with a big mood. It’s like the painting emerged from a hazy dream. The painting is mostly a landscape of dark greens and browns, so you can see the light in the sky. I bet Jankowski was looking hard at the old masters, maybe even squinting at a Rothko. The painting has these little marks, like they were drawn with charcoal or a very dry brush. There are a few hieroglyphic looking characters that give the sense of animals. I think the artist was scratching them on the painting. They seem like ghosts caught in the ashy air. I always wonder, what were they thinking when they made it? This painting has a beautiful tension that I can relate to. The whole painting feels like one big gesture, an embodied thought that is searching.