Aleksandra Staniorowska-Bula Poland Painting

Paradise Lost: a wealth of associations. On the one hand, John Milton's masterpiece about the genesis of good and evil, about the creation and fall of man, also emerges from it an innovative image of Satan - an individualist with human weaknesses. On the other hand, more local perspective - closer to my artistic inspiration - it is a picture of a destruction after the transformation of the 1990s. To this day, it echoes in Polish society in accusations of claimity. Old harms also have their tangible monuments, scattered along not very frequented roads, especially in Polish villages. This loss is picturesque, mossy, rusty. Developing this association, I also think about the world that awaits us, which is being co-created by the climate catastrophe, along with the depleting resources of minerals. This vision is open, hopeful, disturbing. Then what will moss and rust cover? What proud monuments of the present day will bend under the pressure of reality? It is possible that we will answer these questions in our lifetime.