Stanislaw Gierada (b. 1943), Seed II, 2002

bronze, height 56 cm

In the world around us we are confronted with a gigantic wealth of nature. The infinite number of nature's shapes leaves us artists with only the delusion that we are inventing something wildly unprecedented and original. We are left to be inspired by it, to learn from it, to constantly observe it, to peep at it. If one is able to do this, then almost at every step we can discover fascinating forms, structures, matter, even provoking us to repeat them in sculpture, to transfer them to another setting, to another environment, giving them new life through a new context." - Stanislaw Gierada
Stanislaw Gierada - 50 years of creative work, edited by B. Brzostowska-Gierada, I. Wensierska-Łajca, Association of Polish Artists Gdansk District, Gdansk 2018