As in artworks generally, as distinguished from mere representations, the means of representation is used in a way not exhaustively specified after exhaustively specifying what is represented. This does not of course obviate undertaking a specification of the means of representation or of what is represented. If never to be fully found, this logos of the subject is at least manifested as a trace in the several artworks. In Fertilizer, an empty glass vase rests on a small yellow table, its top rendered in inverted perspective. It is on the space where there is nothing that that the utility of the vessel depends.
Presence growing from absence, fertile life follows death's decay.
The three dimensional grid of the cube confines the butterflies, while outside the cube luminously blue butterfly wings fall from the plane defined by the top of the pedestal to a floor covered with butterflies, filling the lower register of the painting. The things represented in Pawlowicz' paintings are common, ordinary, but nonetheless cathected. These oppositions are at once juxtaposed as such and brought into a resolution within the works. Thus A Penny For Your Prayers places a rosary in the upper left and a piggy bank in the lower right of a Naples yellow field. The light is soft, with subtle, transparent cast shadows, as if from a large light source.