My artistic process is less about constructing and more about uncovering, like excavating something ancient yet familiar. I work intuitively, allowing each piece to emerge as a portal, a transmission, a symbolic tablet remembered rather than created. My materials are natural collaborators: coffee, wine, earth pigments and vibrational water. They hold memory, resonance and an aliveness that invites a deeper listening.
Abstract artist Kasia Muzyka.
Photo by Shweta Bist.
My work explores mysticism, the symbolic language of numbers and the energetic architecture of existence. I see numbers not as calculations, but as living glyphs—a sacred language through which the soul communicates. This numerical symbology, combined with the unpredictability of natural pigments, guides the unfolding of each piece. I rarely begin with a fixed image. Instead, I enter the studio as one might enter a temple, with reverence and readiness to receive.
Quantum Timelines (Tower of Everything), coffee, wine and natural pigments, 36 x 36" (91 x 91 cm) Quantum Timelines explores time not as a straight line, but as a spiraling, multidimensional field of possibility. Rooted in the idea that our choices and direct observation shape the reality we experience, this piece visualizes the unseen architecture behind decision, consequence and potential. Layers of color and motion suggest shifting pathways, alternate realities and the energetic weight of unmade choices. There is no fixed beginning, only a constant invitation to begin again. Created in a state of contemplative presence, the painting holds a silent question: What if every moment is a threshold? And what becomes possible when we choose again, consciously?
Before First Breath, coffee, wine and natural pigments on linen, 60 x 40" (152 x 101 cm) Before First Breath is a meditation on origin—as Original Presence—on the space just before form, before memory has a body. The spiral evokes not only cosmological birth, but the soul’s movement through unseen realms. This piece emerged through deep stillness, carrying the sensation of something both ancient and yet to come. It explores the liminal threshold where spirit prepares to enter matter, where the first inhale of life echoes through eternity. With softness and reverence, the painting holds the mystery of becoming: not as an act of creation, but of remembering. It asks, “what lived in you before the first breath?”
Each layer of the work is a conversation with the unseen. I pour, carve, sand, stain and sometimes drill—allowing the materials to dictate form while I hold the intention. I often describe this process as stepping into “radical presence.” The painting is not complete until it feels like a memory returned, visually unfamiliar, yet deeply known.
100 (The Leap of Wholeness), coffee, wine and natural pigments, 36 x 36" (91 x 91 cm) 100 is a celebration of sacred integration: the moment when what was once fragmented becomes whole. Inspired by the symbolism of completion, it honors the soul’s return to itself, not through perfection but through presence. Textured like bark, the piece evokes growth that is both ancient and renewed. At its core, 100 reflects the maturation it takes to recognize oneself not as a single tree, but part of the forest—not a drop apart but the ocean remembering itself. It invites reverence for embodiment, for rooted becoming, and for the quiet knowing that we are never separate from the whole.
I draw on a background in performance, philosophy and social science, which informs my view of art as a mystical practice and a form of sacred inquiry. It is a practice of remembering—restoring connection where fragmentation once ruled. My art asks not to be understood, but to be felt. To awaken what lives just beneath the surface. —
About the Artist
Kasia Muzyka
Kasia Muzyka is a Polish-American artist, philosopher of perception and alchemist of the unseen. Her work explores the mystical, symbolic and energetic architecture of existence—collaborating with natural materials like coffee, wine, earth pigments and vibrational water to reveal what lies beneath the visible.
Muzyka earned her MA in social sciences from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, where her thesis examined how art within small communities can challenge cultural norms and provide meaning and upliftment. Her academic background spans political science, depth psychology, archaeology, philosophy and theosophical traditions. This foundation continues to shape her approach to painting as a form of living inquiry—one that dissolves judgment, questions perception and returns us to sacred presence.
A multidisciplinary creator, she brings early foundations in dance, experimental theater, vocal performance and classical piano into her process. Each painting becomes a portal—not constructed, but uncovered—arriving like a symbolic tablet remembered from a deeper knowing.
Her recent solo exhibition The Sacred Condition of Being transformed a New York City gallery into a contemplative altar, inviting viewers to slow down, feel and remember.
Contact at
kasia@kasiamuzyka.com
kasiamuzyka.com