Tomas Chadim

Fractals (triptych), 2023

Milky Way (Triptych, 2023)

Google Earth and the biggest logistics hubs on the Globe. Tokio, Los Angeles, Osaká, Hamburg, Antwerpen and other. These places hide some kind of beauty, not visible at first look. The photographs patiently discovered by the author are rather paintings. Though, if you look closer, you can explore thousands of details like trucks, tools, materials, shipping containers etc. The only missing element is a human being. There is nobody in the photographs.

... and finally... I've probably found the real center of the Zone... its very core! So quiet, so peaceful!

Time slowed down here, the space was being divided, I could feel a concentration of energy here – energy either collapsed into the gateways, or vice versa pulsed out. The places were really weird.

The Planet as it existed here a hundred thousand years ago.  It was covered by deep dense forest, and to be precise, right here in the central part of one continent. Forests were waiting for the very first human beings – for immigrants from another continent of the same Planet. Those animals – human beings – came and will one day disappear again. They leave only scars in the landscape, which are gradually healed by the forest itself. Once again, it is returning to being an unnamed Planet.

We're a bit like insects. We are ubiquitous. And sometimes there comes an intense swarming = a concentration of our power. However, unlike insect communities, the swarming of our community misses one single goal, a clear intent and also unified vision. Simply put, we miss swarm intelligence.

They are everywhere. They are sticking out all over the Czech landscape. Antennas, transmission towers, water reservoirs, gas storage tanks, floodlights, billboards, concrete plants, cooling towers, cranes and other technological structures. Take a walk through the countryside. It's like you almost can't find a single place unoccupied by at least one of these structures. We are by nature aggressive beings, extensively violating the landscape. Yet I find all these structures profoundly fascinating, and highly attractive, for we are not only invasive beings, but also creative.