25 years in the game, Pener routinely lets his mind travel to encompass possibilities, then channels them abstractly through a series of echoing geometric forms with aerosol and brush. Here in his hometown of Olsztyn, Poland, he says he imagined the possibilities that young minds inside an elementary school could contemplate.

While painting this new “Mirror Land,” he was in a land of mirrors psychologically. He says he prefers to explore the “possible tension between our subconscious and conscious abilities that oscillate between reality and illusion.”

That’s a lot for kids to vocalize, granted, but he says he still engaged them when they watched and asked questions.

“Those were wonderful moments to hear them trying to solve what the wall depicts and hides,” he says.

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