Boronski’s first paintings were still lifes. He thought that painting was all about knowledge and craftsmanship. If you couldn’t paint exactly what you saw, then your work wasn’t a real painting and you weren’t a painter. He spent hours and days working on still lifes. He gradually discovered that it was wrong and that it was impossible to capture reality by drawing it directly, capturing it in a still life or photographing it.

Boronski clearly remembers this process taking place while painting a model. He had the feeling that what he was doing was wrong. He couldn’t resist the urge to add some extra color. And to give it an accent here and there. When he started following his own path, he gained more and more energy. He said goodbye to what he had learned. As a result, his paintings increasingly acquired their own character and signature.

In retrospect, Boronski was able to explain that reality does not always have to be what we have learned and that there are also other ways of seeing. In our Western society and in business, people are taught to see with their minds. We like this too. Images that we recognize. When we shape a painting, work or our life, we have a natural tendency to do this with our mind. And between our ears there are only things that have been programmed there by parents, teachers and our peers. A lake in a painting must be blue, our mind tells us, because that is the color of water. Cubicles, we love them in business. We also prefer to classify population groups as Jewish, Catholic, Muslim and more. Our brains love that. Everything is clear and everyone has a clear stamp, just as we have learned. With all the terrible consequences that entails. JJ Rousseau said it: “We are born free, but everywhere we are put in chains.”

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