Koneser [1.]

Triptych, Warsaw - Praga, area of former vodka factory Koneser, summer 2009, Czajka II camera, 1/2 frame format 24×36 mm, scan from negative.

The summer of 2009 was a time when the death of the plant had already occurred. The production had finished, the halls were lifeless, empty, with no workers moving around amidst the noise. The machines inside the buildings stood silent, abandoned, entwined in cobwebs and a thick layer of dust, being a kind of enigma as to their original function, when the steam and temperature which had given them movement had gone. A state of suspension in nothingness and emptiness resulting from the lack of action. There is a slow sedimentation, a slow settling of time, before the great change. It came soon and brought a new quality. But it is something else now.

Rytm miasta [1.]

Triptych: Warsaw, Aleje Jerozolimskie, near Rondo de Gaulle, August 2009, Chajka II camera, 1/2 frame format 24×36 mm, scan from Ilford Pan 100 negative.

A triptych is a three-part composition in painting, sculpture or another technique. Three paintings, three takes. Each has its own composition and seems to be autonomous. However, in a triptych each of the paintings enters into a relationship with the other two representations. Relationships are formed, mutual connections, a dialogue is created. One place, one moment, presented in three shots.

Movement, dynamics. Just a city, a mass, a machine .... futurismo?