About

Artist Statement

The world is moving faster and faster.

Is it progress..or are we simply repeating cycles of history over and over again? Is it fate, free will, or are we floating in an ocean of chaos?

These unanswerable questions are at the root of my current practice that is a mix of heavy relief painting, sculpture, poetry and short stories.

In the most recent Time Travelers and Deus Aut Machina projects, I look at the clash of human nature, culture, mythologies, emotions and spiritual hunger with technological progress that might destroy the world as we know it..or make our lives into a never ending bliss.

Which will it be?

Bio

Hanna Rachocka was born in Poland in 1965, came of age at the height of authoritarian system there, in a city that became a center of the resistance. Those experiences impacted her deeply and continue to inform the way she sees the world. She immigrated to the United States in 1990 and spent the next three decades practicing internal medicine before retiring in 2020 and returning to the visual arts in 2023.

Having spent much of her life studying the human body, she is now drawn to the anatomy of emotion.

Rachocka works across a mix of mediums including acrylic with heavily built impasto and relief, sculpture, poetry and short stories to give physical and psychological presence to emotional states and existential questions.

Ms. Hide (the other side of the coin)