Every element of the works comprising this series, which began in 1973, shows a manipulation of an otherwise true-to-life image of a façade.

The artist made copies of abstract excerpts from buildings, and added appliqués or used an original halftone process. The resulting narrative structure of a polyptych resembles the deconstructive approach to design. In terms of depiction, Projections illustrate potential events on a one-to-one scale—chunks of reality as well as effects of artistic interventions.

The series combines printmaking with cybernetics. The drawings on etching plates, composed of crosses or asterisks, resembled the product of a dot matrix printer. Projections emerged from the process of impressing perforated computer paper with still-wet prints. In the late seventies the etchings—intermediate products of the process—found use in many other works (e.g. The Point, 1974/1975; Pure Colour, 1974/1975; The One-Balled, 1974/1975).

Written by Krzysztof Siatka