""We can't escape the language of the internet; it's now our emotional alphabet," Minginowicz says. "Sometimes a hashtag or emoji expresses more than an entire essay." "I don't intentionally insert trends into my paintings... but I also don't filter them out. I absorb the world, I scroll, observe, analyze. So yes, the internet seeps into my work, through color, gesture, distortion, glitches. Humor, or rather, bitter absurdity, emerges from that saturation.""
""I oscillate between loud excitement and quiet hyper-focus. These two states flow constantly into each other. I can't stay suspended between them for long. It makes sense; something needs to truly move me, to keep me emotionally stirred, for me to dive into a subject fully, to the point of merging with it. I like being all-in, two hundred percent.""
Paintings pair whimsical, uncanny imagery—human faces on bird heads, cute kitten pillows, and horses with manga tears—with visual glitches and distorted gestures. The internet functions as an emotional alphabet, contributing color, gesture, distortion, and shorthand symbols that saturate contemporary expression. Medieval and early Renaissance illuminated manuscripts and alchemical codices provide older precedents of wild humor, animal-headed figures, and dismembered parts, informing the work's irony and mystery. The creative process alternates between loud excitement and quiet hyper-focus, with full emotional immersion driving deep engagement and material gathering until the subject is absorbed and transformed into finished paintings.
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