As we voyage deeper into an age of dual environments - the physical and the virtual - Staniak’s textured paintings highlight the phenomena of both realms. Looking at Staniak’s pieces is like entering an uncharted environment: one where lithic surfaces have been imprinted by time and the elements, until a gently undulating surface remains.
Staniak focuses on how technology can be used to make sense of the myriad of capricious information that is readily available online. Having to navigate this virtual landscape poses many new challenges, like entering a strange yet captivating land without a map. For millennia, new technology has been developed to navigate the unknown chaos of nature - and the human brain also longs to decipher and ascribe meaning to cryptic, often meaningless, visual data.
