Erosion Jacek Yerka (1952-)

Description of Jacek Jerk’s painting "Erosion"

J. Jerk worked in the style of neo-surrealism, his work is unusual, revealing a new perspective on reality and often combining several realities into one painting.

Looking at the list of this artist’s paintings, one can discern and, more extensively, realize the meaning of his work. The painter creates entire universes, yet so comprehensible to the beholder. His paintings are unusual, although filled with a fraction of reality.

The work "Erosion" conveys a deep philosophical meaning, contemplating this work, everyone will find his idea, but remain indifferent to this work is simply impossible. The painter depicted life as it is. It’s a lot of roads with a crossroads, endless intersections. Roads that go to infinity.

On the road of life you can find a shelter, but at what point to stop, decides only the person walking. The road can intersect with the road of another walker, you can continue along the path of life and not alone.

The artist showed that everyone can choose their own turn. And to be happy you only need to look around, the trees along the road symbolize life. The multitude of houses suggests that many have stopped. They have chosen life without the difficult and long road.

The title of the painting speaks of destruction. It is up to each of us to choose what it is that destroys him, or perhaps by taking this long road someone is destroying someone? Perhaps erosion itself looks like this and is an endless intersection of the arteries of life leading to infinity.

There is a sense of movement, and when you contemplate it, there is an interest in knowing what is beyond the horizon, in the distance. But is it worth spending so much energy to overcome this segment of the road? Everyone will decide for himself. To understand the true implications of this work, you need to look at the entire cycle of paintings by the artist.