On History, Poland, and its Woods
The Second World snugly finds its place between the First and Third worlds. These are constructs of the Cold War, antiquated political categorizations that pigeonhole the world as we know it into a...
View ArticleA Robot, A Film Camera, and Eastern Europe
A melody, maybe? Bucharest I arrived to Bucharest on its hottest recorded day ever. What can I say, I do that to places. Sighisoara Dracula’s hometown manages to attract many visitors, but it’s not...
View ArticleThe Pierogi Festival
The very best of my childhood is rejuvenated with a return to Krakow, this time with copious day drinking and a whole event dedicated to pierogi. I personally took on the responsibility of trying all...
View ArticleMorskie Oko
Sometimes we revisit places we idealize from our childhood. Sometimes these places meet the grand expectations we develop after years of absence and reminiscing. But more often than not, we go back...
View ArticleMatysowka
As tiny children, my cousins and I would play jump rope in their empty schoolyard. It was always great fun, mostly because we played helicopter-style, the only style I could ever manage without...
View ArticleMoving East: A Film Photo Story
A background song, if you’d like? Krakow: A pretty girl who hates being photographed is photographed. In the center of Warsaw lies a tiny room. The space in the room is mostly occupied by a large...
View ArticleThe Fall is Here
I’m going to Warsaw for my dad’s funeral. It’s a city so interwoven with his character and history that every other conceivable place in the world would be too wrong and too small for him. I’m glad,...
View ArticleFlowers from Stone
So I’ve been waddling around Warsaw for the past week. As previously mentioned, I’m here for neither business nor pleasure, for a funeral is neither something to profit from nor derive happiness from....
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