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The Approaching Fullness

Pełnia I — stoneware sphere, diam. 40 cm, studio photograph — Pełnia I · diam. 40 cm · photo Studio Miód Malina · scroll — the light moves from new moon to full The light is recalculated in the browser from the photograph — a simulation, not separate photographs of the phases. At the end of the scene the unaltered photograph returns.

“I was moved by something I read about the first symbolic artefacts. They were spheres from 300,000 years ago. They bear the imprints of human hands, and the suspicion that they were ritual objects. What could they have symbolised? I suspect the moon — its watching has always been bound to the cycle of life on earth. Symbols are still what we need to order chaos and to search for meaning.”

Three spheres from The Approaching Fullness on a white plinth, Nów w Pełni exhibition, BWA Bydgoszcz — installation view, “Nów w Pełni / Beyond the Object”, BWA Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz, 2026 · photo: TZ

Objects

The series is numbered from the largest sphere down.

Pełnia I — mineral, rough; a moon after erosion private collection stoneware, own clay body, engobes and oxides, fired at 1220°C · 2026 · diameter 40 cm
Pełnia II — crumpled, rough private collection stoneware, own clay body, engobes and oxides, fired at 1220°C · 2026 · diameter 34 cm
Pełnia III — banded, with a horizon written into the glaze private collection stoneware, own clay body, engobes and oxides, fired at 1220°C · 2026 · diameter 25 cm

Pełnia I, II, III — diam. 40, 34, 25 cm, at true relative scale, in one light · photo Studio Miód Malina

Studio photographs

Catalogue documentation on a neutral ground — the spheres together and singly.

Spheres from the studio on a neutral ground — the largest at the left, the smaller ones in front and to the right — spheres from the studio — studio documentation · stoneware, fired at 1220°C · photo Studio Miód Malina, Warsaw

Stoneware sphere on a neutral ground — rough mineral surface, grey-blue with pale crusted patches and dark pits

Pełnia II — rough, crumpled grey-blue surface with dark speckling

left: Pełnia I — diam. 40 cm · right: Pełnia II — diam. 34 cm · photo Studio Miód Malina, Warsaw

Pełnia III — smoother surface with horizontal bands of blue-grey and a dark speckled band — Pełnia III — diam. 25 cm · photo Studio Miód Malina, Warsaw

Rough grey-blue stoneware sphere seen from another side — crusted surface with pale patches and dark speckles

Pełnia II seen from another side — crumpled grey-green stoneware — furrowed surface with dark pits

Pełnia I (diam. 40 cm) and Pełnia II (diam. 34 cm) — other views · photo Studio Miód Malina, Warsaw

Pełnia III seen from another side — banded stoneware — pale top, a blue-grey band and a dark speckled band near the base — Pełnia III — diam. 25 cm, another view · photo Studio Miód Malina, Warsaw

Spheres from the studio seen from above on a neutral ground — spheres from the studio, from above · photo Studio Miód Malina, Warsaw

A sphere from The Approaching Fullness on a white plinth — stoneware, a band of blue and ferrous speckling — “The Approaching Fullness” · stoneware, fired at 1220°C · BWA exhibition view

Close-up of a sphere's surface — stoneware, ferrous speckling, a band of blue, a trace of fire — the surface up close — engobes and oxides on stoneware

One of a kind

Each sphere exists singly. The forms take weeks; the firing at 1220°C is irreversible — not all of them survive the trial of fire. Works are signed on the base, unnumbered. The series stays open — there are many phases.

The series was shown at the BWA Municipal Gallery in Bydgoszcz (“Nów w Pełni / Beyond the Object”, 23 Apr – 7 Jun 2026, curated by Monika Osinkowska) — viewing room →

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