RECORDS OF TIME IN NATURE
Jiří Šigut is an enthusiastic and attentive observer of nature. He found a quite original way of depicting natural processes and the flow of time. Not him, but nature itself is the author of the final picture. He leaves photographic papers, often large-sized, in nature for several days and sometimes even for weeks. This is why the image on the fast side of a film is created by movement of grass, falling of leaves, flow of water or by wind.
  We can recognize not only fragments of products of nature in his pictures, but also records of natural light changes, traces of energy or movements of stars and the moon, as well as records of fire-flies and other living creatures. Artist’s personal approach and experience of laying photographic paper on a particular place in an almost ritual way and leaving it there for several days is also very significant.
  The artist by himself confesses: „I am fascinated by the possibilities of photographic papers to work in time, to absorb light and energy. What an ability to depict faithfully and subsequently keep all the passing. To record processes and elements lasting for millions of years which also the first human being perceived. I often cannot express in words what I feel. However, the papers with records of wind movements, water flow or a fallen leaf remain... with a trace of the world.“

IN DIALOGUE WITH NATURE
The dialogue of order and chance is one of the most essential principles of Zdeněk Sýkora´s work. The structure of shape and colours, as well as the composition rhythm of his pictures arise from setting particular rules and applying randomness within them. It is significant that the dramatic relationship between rational order and random steps in a given system is solved by an electronic PC program. The final solution is then pictured by the artist. Just these fortuitous variants bring Sýkora´s creation and natural patterns together. Also, inside a particular natural system individual deviations come into existence. E.g. in a great series of pictures from years 1994–2004 all lines were running out of one point, but they always spread in a different way, just as two specimens of plant are never identical.

SILENT OBSERVATION OF NATURAL STRUCTURES
Pavel Hayek creates his pictures by simple recording of shapes of various natural elements, e.g. leaves, fruits or roots. He fills the canvass by delineating precise outlines of these elements. Shape and rhythm are the work of nature, not of the artist’s subject. The painter let himself deliberately in a position of a humble observer who only records shapes and rhythms created by nature.
  Linking individual elements one to another, a rhythmical order arises. It is an order which is defined by natural patterns – the size and shape of leaves, curvature of fruits, roots density. The painter only increases effect of natural morphology by limiting colourfulness in black-and-white expression. Photogrammes are another way of Hayek´s art work. When creating photogrammes, products of nature are placed on the fast side of a photographic paper. The picture of natural rhythm arises from exposing the paper to light and developing it.