Karolina DRYPS (b. 1984), Flower of Djinn, 2023

acrylic, canvas, 100 x 100 cm, signed on the back: KALA

She was born in 1984 in Katowice, Poland.
From 2010-2012 she studied graphic design at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer Technology ; she received her bachelor's degree in the studio of Prof. Artur Tajber. In 2013-2015, she studied at the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Art in Szczecin ; a master's degree in the studio of Dr. Lukasz Skapski.
Since the beginning of her education, she has participated in many group and solo exhibitions

EXHIBITS 2022

- Tu Centrum.Szczecin individual painting exhibition '' Kaz da stain has meaning''.
- VI International Creative Congress Design Plus NFT presentation
- Kuckenmuhle individual painting exhibition '' Tet a tet / ether "
-Deepspace.gallery Warsaw collective exhibition of traditional painting and NFT
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COOPERATION / PROJECTS
Zwiazek Literatow Polskich (Polish Writers' Union) cooperation in the edition of the yearbook Literary Prism.
Participation in the ART.METASY project on digitalization of art

"Ether for me is a space where everything that has energy and does not belong to the world of matter meets. The primordial void of chaos to infinity filled with alchemical mysticism. Incantations, prayers, desires, shamanic trance, psychedelic travel, astral landscapes - all this contains ether.
The impossibility of directly detecting such a substance makes it extremely romantic and appealing to me. Painting is a form in which I try to capture the macrocosm on a microscale.

The acts of a practitioner of magic, a meditator or an artist converge on the same point: being present in the moment and then allowing the infinitely small essence of that moment to expand and express the entire macrocosm. The universe pulsates in its reality, and the artist has the honor, the privilege, the burden of capturing that living beat. Creating art is the act of following each momentary spark and expressing it in the exact form, color, line or theme that is somehow and forever 'right.'"