PORTALS OF REMEMBRANCE, 2024

Silk hangings and ceramic arch

Silk hangings, embroidery, lapms

150x100cm

H 240x D12x 22 x W 110cm, Glazed ceramic arch, wood

150x120cm, silk paint, wax on Dutches satin

300x120cm, silk paint, embroidery on silk

240x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, wax, needles on silk

114x220cm, embroidered silk hanging, silk prints

300x120cm, silk paint, embroidery on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needles on silk

300x120cm, silk paint, embroidery on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needled on silk

400x120cm, silk paint, wax on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needled, wax on silk

400x120cm, silk paint, wax on silk

240x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needled, wax on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needles, wax on silk

240x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needled, wax on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needles, wax on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, silk print on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery, needles, wax on silk

300x111cm, silk paint, embroidery on silk

240x120cm, silk paint, wax, needles, embroidery on silk

220x111cm, silk paint, wax, needles, embroidery on silk

240x120cm, silk paint, needles, wax, embroidery on silk

Installation shots

Paintings juxtaposed with light boxes and sculptures

The genesis of The Portals of Remembrance series lies in a profound, life-altering out-of-body experience that fundamentally shifted my perspective, collapsing the linear concepts of past, present, and future into a unified consciousness I call Homecoming. This three-part journey explores love in all its iterations—the yearning, struggle, self-love, and absence—a thread binding themes of oneness, identity, and healing. Rooted in my personal narrative of over 45 surgeries and a near-death experience, the work informs my commentary on navigating modern femininity and growing up in post-communist Poland. Executionally, the series utilizes silk as a primary medium to create expansive lightbox paintings that evoke the spiritual clarity of stained glass. These pieces are not conventional paintings; they are tapestries woven from the warp and weft of time—a silken cocoon spun from memory. The final installation combines these dramatic lightbox tapestries with ceramic sculptures and traditional paintings, offering a complete, immersive return to the self.

PORTALS OF REMEMBRANCE, 2024

Installation shots

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