Pareidolia - a phenomenon in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist.

This project continues a story begun in an analogue photography elective. That is when I found my way to the Kampinos Forest - the former village of Bromierzyk - and I kept returning to this place for the next 4 years. For I discovered in it a certain magic that I have not found in any other forest in Poland. I was drawn in and fascinated by the structures of the trees there and the story they are trying to tell. That is how I began to discover the world of these largest of land plants, to feel their power and to understand how they function on our planet. On top of that, I delved into the thread of ghosts and paranormal phenomena which, reportedly, have occurred in this patch of forest for hundreds of years. Thoughts arose - how is it possible that in this one place alone the trees are so unusually deformed? Is what I see really there?

Bromierzyk. Once a village.

A brutal war left only the Forest.

The forest, they say, has kept more.

At first I was drawn by the traces of human life, barely perceptible, which drew me in all the more. I returned regularly, in the autumn and winter season, gaining insight into the structures of these Largest of land plants, whose power overawed me. The raw, bare forest, me and the lens. And on top of that an aura of mystery and presence flowing from the trees. And as if they began to communicate with me, these very trees. Twisted, deformed, alive; so like us. The dead elements too seemed to be saying something, in an Invisible whisper.

Is it I who sees?

"Before us there was the forest, after us there will be the forest."

At the exhibition I will present photographs in the form of gelatin silver prints, developed in the darkroom using analogue technique.