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Kamil Czapiga, also known as Cosmodernism, is a Polish artist whose creative adventure began in his adolescent years when he joined the local art school and later continued his artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Katowice. Studying Graphic Design, he received a bachelor's degree from the illustration class of 2012 and began his career as an illustrator and tattoo artist, running a tattoo studio and creating original designs for clients from both Poland and abroad. In April 2023, Kamil Czapiga decided to focus exclusively on his Cosmodernism intermedia art project, comprised of abstract video art, photography, and original sound design. This project allows Kamil to explore personal abstract expression through micro and macro observations captured with a microscope and hand-made precision optics mechanisms, resulting in images that feel otherworldly, but are firmly rooted in real scientific experiments. Kamil uses various kinds of chemicals, dyes, objects, interesting reactions, both from the world of chemistry and physics, despite not having a scientific background, choosing to follow his own intuition and trial-and error method instead.
In addition to his strictly authorial work, his project is also based on various collaborations with other artists, musicians, institutions and brands, such as the European Space Agency and DTU.

Stories_030 is based on macro-scale recordings (10–15 mm) documenting an experiment with ignited steel wool, captured as it burns in a distinctive and unpredictable way.
The object is placed on a rotating platform and ignited using a torch positioned outside the frame. As the steel wool combusts, it produces rapid shifts in brightness, texture, and motion. Rotation introduces an additional layer of movement, allowing the burning material to reveal changing structures as it reacts to heat and oxygen.
The image focuses on the transformation itself - a short-lived process where material is altered through combustion. What appears on screen is a direct record of this reaction, captured in real time and entirely in-camera.
Stories_030 is part of the Stories series, which documents singular physical events and experiments, emphasizing transient processes and material change observed at macro scale.
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