JAPANESE TEXT

Kotecki is, essentially, a graphic artist of discipline and refinement. He confines his means to black and white line, with which he develops a geometric world of deceptive simplicity. His visual constructions appear to be shallow, lifting, say, an inch from the paper's surface. What seems to be a clear geometric, three dimensional pattern, will, upon closer examination, give way to contradictory elements. What looked, at first, concave, now seems convex, or what appears to be protruding areas, now look absolutely flat. The shifts can occur slowly over the range of a composition, in a subtle manner. Confounding the viewer's assumptions is not mere 'fool the eye' gimmickry. It addresses the nature of perception, of the intrinsic human need to bring order to the surroundings, and how what seems orderly is often not.

Kotecki also upsets the initial assumption that his meticulous work is computer generated, when in fact, it is decidedly hand drawn. Why bother, when the computer can do the job more efficiently, is a legitimate question. Kotecki's position, however, is that the hand drawn line possesses human sensitivity that is not possible to replicate mechanically.