September 2006
Hi Jirka, so listen,
I will not philosophise about it, I hope that the girl you mentioned – by the way, she hasn’t called yet – will understand this text and distil something sensible from it.
The situation is that the two of us met and we both had this permanent “overpressure” (the desire to do something more than just work), I don’t know if I can call it artistic – maybe Lukáš has a much more serious approach to this. Considering the nature of our work (where we are forced to be creative, intellectually brusque or ready for possible brainstorming over a given topic 10-12 hours a day) we always used to come back home in that wrecked state where one is only capable of mere passive consumption, and stretching the canvass or poring over “real” art or speculations about the insidiousness of Rafan actions is really, really hard - so I released this indefinable desire of mine in the most accessible way – technique (doodling with markers or ball pens on office paper). When I realised that we both get rid of the overpressure with the same mental and physical weariness in almost an identical way, and that an activity more “artistic” causes us significant troubles, it was not difficult to regulate this activity a bit. And so we came upon an apt title: “Kurva”(“Fuckin’”) symbolizing the desire for art – ha ha ha – and “Fix” (“Marker”) representing the technique used.
In any case, today the thing is that I pushed art to one side, and devoted myself to genre and illustrations, while Lukáš resigned and stretched the canvasses and plunged into the swirl of artistic work. This is about all the entry information that I can provide.
P.S. Hey, you know I just realized that these doodlings of ours is much more honest than the diaries that some people write with the intention of publishing them sometime – that makes me wanna puke. I guess we just didn’t have the heart to throw them out, and the exhibition in etc. was getting inexorably closer and closer...
PM
Petr Motejzík, 2009
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