Kwiaty

Kwiaty means flowers in Polish. The project was born when visiting Warsaw in 2007, walking around the city I noticed many flowers that people had left beside several plaques and memorials or even places that apparently did not have much sense. Those flowers led me to learn how hidden recent History of Poland was being taken into the light by ordinary people. With the advent of democracy after World War II and the subsequent Communist regime that ruled Poland after the war, Varsovians recovered the possibility to honor their loved ones, parents, siblings, friends, ordinary people, unsung heroes who fought for the freedom of their country rising brave against the Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism, and were unfairly silenced by History. I went back in 2012 and they were still flowers. Nowadays this practice persists. Varsovians do not forget the those who made it possible for Poland to be the free country it is today. This project is a tribute to the spirit of resilience and survival, to the power of the human being to raise from the ashes of suffering and destruction. And as a message of hope. It shows the need of the people, not only at a political level, but on a human level, to recover the historical memory to move into the future without pending subjects. We bring flowers to show that we remember our people. But also flowers are those to find the way to rebirth in the middle of dirt and chaos. Nature can even flourish through the stone. That is why Warsaw is full of flowers.