Andrew Malag, Scylla and Charybdis 1

Andrzej Malag: "The atmosphere of the seaport, the shipyard - watching the new beautiful ships mature at the equipment quay - getting bigger and more advanced as technology and experience developed - addressed to various home ports of the world may have triggered the imagination and interests of a young individual. At the same time, the wide bodies of water of the Oder River and Szczecin Lagoon, misty landscapes, proximity to the sea - nautical elements are present in all my paintings. At the Youth Palace in Szczecin (later the Youth House of Culture) in the Art Studio, of which I became a participant before I became a student in elementary school, instructors (probably "paratroopers" from Lviv) showed the workshop of art, and at the same time "infected" children and young people with the traditions of ancient and classical culture. One of the features of the microclimate of Western Pomerania is the frequent rains in summer. Walking in the rain at night and looking through glasses at the street lights shining through the leaves of trees, one can immediately notice the characteristic ...striated structures initiated by raindrops on the glasses.

These very different interference figures are formed, despite the near-zero coherence length of the streetlamp light, because the optical path difference is also close to zero.... At the time, walking in the rain, I couldn't understand it, but the visual effect stayed in my memory for a long time ...and also the thought that this would have to be 'dealt with' someday..."