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It may have been 2016 or 2017, erstwhile the autobiography of Dariusz Milinski "Born in a cemetery" came into my hand for the first time. Since then, I have consistently treated her as a mandatory reading for anyone who wants to take up the occupation of educator, teacher of hard youth, psychologist, and peculiarly trauma researcher. Apart from the end of the book, erstwhile you can clearly see that the author gave up exhibitionist sincerity, you can learn a lot about the life of young people from the margin that went there not due to the fact that she chose so, and due to the fact that she had parents like that, and it is known that (chichi) “no 1 will realize the kid like the parents” (narrow, hose)! It is also, and possibly most of all, a communicative about how ART Saves Human Life.

Dariusz Miliński – Don Quixote from flowers (2017)

Dariusz Miliński is simply a successful artist, craftsman and philanthropist, trying to save young people from areas where pathology is regular bread utilizing art. In your “Magic Swim” (click if you want to read the offer) , the capital, if not Polish, is surely the Lower Silesian kitsch controlled, full of souvenirs from the past and all forms of ancient and contemporary art, from gems through utility art, on kitschy ornaments ending, attracts more and more people. I don't think I'm incorrect to say that DM is simply a multimillionaire today, but that's not always the case. He was on his best way to rot in prison, a intellectual hospital, or somewhere under the fence, as with many of his friends. As a minor, he had a past of stealing, alcohol and drug abuse, a full lot of casual sex, mostly anything that might be associated with trouble. However, there were people who saw his artistic talent, supported him in this way, made him believe that he was worth something, protected him from his own parents, family, friends, colleagues, and even though his transformation was not immediate (it was not Darth Vader in 1 second passing from a bright to a dark side of power to later return equally rapidly to the bright side), it was Dariusz Miliński slowly, but consistently with each day brighter. Interestingly, for a long time he has not considered himself an art creator, he is referred to as a craftsman, but his craft is the highest effort and without artistic education he could not be in the present form. He paints paintings in bulk, just as he creates art installations and due to the simple and repetitive symbolism he uses, like the repeated motifs used, this is how he evaluates his work. But I'll tell you that it's not precisely true, he's a small teasing, he's always looking, and it's throwing himself at theatre forms, and then he goes back to graphics, posters, paintings and installations. And not everything is so secondary and predictable as he overly modestly says. He lives from what art and art education gave him, and infects others with it.

I wouldn't have met Dark if I hadn't been in the habit of staying in different artistic forms. Whether it's a street artist (dancer, musician, painter, street actor) or any dead form, like a mural, sculpture, tombstone. I'm curious, my wife Świechna too, that's why we know him, so we have a fewer small things made by Milinski at home and sometimes even on ourselves. We didn't, but we wanted to meet him. For art can be encountered in 2 about speaking ways.
1. With the command (you can read, hear that it is worth someone, or see something), but this way, nevertheless you cannot ignore it and completely reject it, is shuffled a small by the task and by the checking, especially if we thin on it only, due to the fact that on the way to the “advised artistic experience” we can pass by a 100 fafnats of tiny pieces, happenings, performances. We can lose notes, words and images.
2, Out of curiosity, by stopping for something intriguing, taking a minute for something another than moving after your own tail.

And do you know why most of the inhabitants of the further surroundings of Pławna (outside the village in which the artist is simply a personality) do not know Dariusz Milinski and will not be able to identify the author erstwhile he sees his painting? due to the fact that they don't give a crap – and it's not as simple as that. They did not make artistic sensitivity or kill it with materialism, intellectual laziness, fear of the group they identify with. It was a process, a full series of mistakes and omissions that led them to the point they were at.

Piotr Bukartyk – Dirty love (in the image of the cover of the album “Perhaps that's all this” task by Dariusz Milinski.

Not everyone has to become an artist, but uncovering artistic talent can get him back on his feet. I knew a boy (today he's a grown man, over 50 years old) who came from a household akin to Dariusz Milinski. any of his siblings are dead, any die, others have limited freedom (penalty facilities, psychiatric hospitals). fewer people know how many siblings he actually had. any were born, others died, others disappeared, and nobody cared where they were. But he escaped from the household hell to a boarding school where individual discovered his talent and supported him in creating. He started doing craftsmanship and decorative trifles, mostly metaloplasty. He took an interest in photography along the way. This is not the cheapest hobby, so it took him a while to complete the equipment on which to work, and present he lives from photography. It serves local sporting and municipal events, does thematic photograph sessions, manages. We are besides talking about craftsmanship, but individual had to see his artistic sense and convince him that it was worth going in this direction. And if he had his memory buried, and he didn't gotta dig deep, he would have found those who were set as a model in his simple school, and present they're sniffing flowers from the bottom, or stuck somewhere between a barbecue, a wedding, a match, and sometimes a penalty. He was right on that course, he was even under the path, the collision was expected earlier, fortunately there was individual another than Mentzen with his beer.

Dariusz Milinski – Edi, poster for the film

That's what art is for, too. I would besides like to tell you about the theatre “Karawan” where addicts and co-addicts who quit addiction, and art helps them, but I think there is no space here, so I'll just leave a shortcut. Here's the interesting thing. People of the age, they aid each another to dig themselves out of the bottom to return to peers who have not wasted time and already mean something, so they are in a social ladder a few, respective levels higher. This is not easy due to the fact that the free marketplace is selfish and jealous. 40-50 years old is the age erstwhile advanced positions and large opportunities open up to people, so it's hard to get up from the mud at this point. And after a fewer years in this theater, all these outsiders are starting to catch up and outrun the competition. Everyone in their specialty. Saved by artists who are completely unknown to the public. Almost underground artists, who are not specified because, as Mr Mentzen says, “they can only pretend to be individual they are not and clown on stage” but due to the fact that so fewer people are curious in art, so how can they know who can and can't? However, if they asked in the spheres of Szaniawski Theatre in Wałbrzych, Norwid Theatre in Jelenia Góra or Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, who is Tadeusz Rybicki, who is Anna Krych, they would learn that we are talking about 1 of the best Lower Silesian actors and theatre directors, as well as a large dancer (now a dance trainer) and choreographer (a hard word, especially for Mentzen). The remainder of art and its impact on life must be found out for yourself. Or you don't have to. It's a choice, not a warrant.