Paul II» would not have sought to honour this wartime Pope, whose photographic image seems so
austere and who struggled to do what was right at a
time when the Polish nation was enduring huge suffering and the world was at war.
This metamorphosis done from series that overlapped in
time, with contributions from Kitsch, from graffiti, with evocations from Pop and employing popular culture colours, led him to some sort of baroque from which he later escaped
when he worked on monumental scale works, to which polished, rusted or burnt steel gave a much more
austere aspect.