Hard nut to crack

The work is an artistic installation composed of several dozen individual objects/coconuts/ that can also exist independently. It is a kind of a work in progress which has started in 2020. Every year the collection of nuts is growing. The project touches the topic of face, identity and post-memory. In my work, I tried to recall the images of deceased people whose lives and activities in the past are a constant inspiration that influences the creation of the present and the future. Their actions and they themselves were the proverbial tough nuts to crack. Using epoxy resin in coconut shells, I immortalized, among others, the image of Pina Bausch, Zbigniew Cybulski, Leopold Tyrmand, Janusz Korczak, Zofia Baltarowicz-Dzielińska, Mieczysław Białkiewicz, Andrzej Wróblewski and many others.