On the works on paper by Josef Mikl

Your piercing gaze dissects the object.

Dismantles it, reassembles it.

The all-round view, the wide angle, the absolute closeness, remembering your gaze, razor-sharp, no detail unseen, you bring your eye as close as 10 cm to the object, you enjoy the pleasure of seeing.

Your desire to see scares you, takes you out of your comfort zone, no soft focus.

Pure nudity.

You are interested in the feel, the lightness of the object, the tension, the static, the transience, the surface.

The tension of the flower petals, you can hear the blue paper rollers, the lightness of the brittle curly duck, the velvety cloth dog, the moisture of the salmon slices, the determination of the tin soldiers, the woodenness of the carved children's horse, the aura of the saintly figure, the amused puppets.

You shape your world with your painted still lifes, drive your painted figures into abstraction and build a wonderful world with them, your world, they accompany you - faithful beings.

You direct with the brush, with a touch of color you find the solution, your point of view!