ARTWORKS
Joanna Potepa Studio uses hand-drawn geometry to map what happens when life is under pressure.
These works are not décor, but visual records of being stuck, realigning, or finally moving forward.
Clean structures hold what is chaotic and human underneath.
From full cycles like Graffita to single geometric drawings and mandalas.
Each piece is a precise snapshot of a state you might recognize.
These drawings are available as fine art prints and selected originals, shipped worldwide.
GRAFFITA
A LIFE IN TRANSITION
Graffita is a series of ten black-and-white drawings created in one of the most intense, unstable periods of my life, each piece was drawn in real time, inside a specific emotional state – not “about” it later, but from within it. Think of them as seismographs: the geometry is precise, the feeling underneath is anything but.
These works don’t pretend life doesn’t hurt.
They’re about something else: that yes, it can feel like this – and you can still move forward.
Clean lines and strict structure hold what’s messy, wild, and deeply human.
Order on the surface, chaos underneath – exactly how it often feels when you’re just trying to survive another day.
You don’t need to know my story to connect with Graffita. You bring your own.
Maybe you’ll recognize yourself in the pressure of being stuck, in the urge to run, in the moment just before everything finally shifts. Each drawing can be a quiet witness on your wall, a reminder that:
You are not broken. You are in transition.
And there is an “after” – even if you can’t see it yet.
If one of these pieces feels uncomfortably close to where you are now – that’s on purpose.
GEOMETRY
The language before collapse.
Geometry is the structural foundation underlying all other cycles. It is the system of proportion, repetition, and balance that precedes disruption.
These works explore fundamental forms — grids, circles, axes — as tools for orientation. Geometry here is not decoration. It is a discipline of seeing and a record of order before it is challenged.
In the context of Graffita, Geometry functions as memory: the structure that once held, and against which change becomes visible.
Geometry provides the structural memory against which Graffita becomes legible.
Cycles of Change
Cycles of Change starts from the same point and grows in different directions – parallel worlds, slow fractures, quiet reformations.
Silent Forms
Silent Forms are pauses in drawing form – places where instinct, structure and observation meet in one clean composition.
Mandalas
Mandalas — states of attention.
Mandala works focus on rhythm, repetition, and controlled movement. They are built through precision and sustained focus, forming closed visual systems that invite concentration.
These pieces operate as quiet fields of balance. They are not narrative and not symbolic in a personal sense. They exist to hold attention and structure perception.
Mandalas function as contained environments — small, complete systems designed for stillness and visual coherence.
These works come from an earlier chapter of my practice, where rhythm and balance were the primary focus.
