No. 1: Discovering my late brother's artistic legacy
Art in absence
This is a photo of my brother, shot by me using an old Canon AE-1 camera our dad gave us. It was in our early 20s.
It's a special picture because it was the last time I remember him really happy.
This summer, my brother, who was 37, took his own life. It devastated me.
He spent his recent years living abroad in Spain, away from our family in Poland.
We hadn't been close for a long time.
He struggled a lot, mentally and emotionally. And I’m not the easiest person to be around either. Keeping in touch was hard, bordering on impossible.
After he left us, I went to his apartment to collect his belongings.
My brother, the genius tech guy, was an artist. But not just a hobbyist.
He had created hundreds of paintings, filled dozens of notebooks with writings, stories, sketches, manuscripts, diagrams – a whole secret universe that nobody(?) knew about.
This art, these words, they had to be a huge part of him. And we never knew.
I am not an artist but I believe that what he left behind might be as impactful and significant as the photography of Diane Arbus.
I realize that my perspective might be ignorant and subjective.
He signed most of his stuff as “Zero Talent” - hence the name of this page.
I want to bring his art, his “Zero Talent,” into the light.
This newsletter is where it starts.
No detailed roadmap yet, but I feel a deep need to share his legacy.
For him. For me. For all art that never gets to see the light.
Welcome to "Zero Talent."
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