Pradzynski's works explore and wander the streets of Paris like a solitary lover for whom every window, doorway and cafe are filled with meaning. Much of Pradzynski's mood is created upon the stage of old Parisian buildings and storefronts. His windows, chairs and doorways become actors whose interplay between light and shadow perform for the audience of our memories and dreams.

Throughout the 19th century and for half of the twentieth, Paris served as a beacon for artistic expression, drawing artists from all over Europe and the United States. Writers, painters, musicians and poets have all been inexorably drawn to this creative mecca. To name a few: Delacroix, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Camus, Sartre and Hemmingway. Within the confines of smokey cafes, Pradzynski found the creative atmosphere conducive to his own inspirations. Much like his contemporaries, Pradzynski's inspirations turned into thought provoking creations

Nostalgia reflects much of Pradzynski's work. It is a feeling he searches out in the deserted streets, a mood he discovers in an image reflected off a window or in a building's crumbling facade. Whether it is the empty street, the riderless bicycle propped against a wall, an unattended table in a small cafe, his images reveal the impulse in us all to hold tight to traces of the past, while the occasional open doorway lends the imagery of mystery and suggests a future, inevitable, yet unknown.

Thomas pradzynski has successfully laid claim to a re-imagined Paris, one completely his own. Its streets are empty but the complex experience of human emotion has not derserted them. His city is a unique configuration of dream and rememberance; mystery and anticipation. He has transformed the alleyways, cafes and open doorways into metaphor. Pradzynski's Paris is nothing less than a hauntingly evocative streetmap of our own emotions.