‘We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment’ Hilaire Belloc
‘Mirage’ is a meditation on memory, movement, and the fragmented nature of lived experience. Created in 2025, the work revisits a photograph I took in October 2007 while travelling through the Moroccan desert, somewhere between Marrakech and Essaouira. At the time, I was navigating the cultural shift of migrating from Poland to the UK—restless, curious, and seeking meaning through displacement.
Travel, to me, has always held a dual quality: it is both a privilege and a pursuit of presence. As a migrant, I have often lived in-between places, and the act of moving—across borders, through landscapes—offered me a sense of clarity and fulfilment. That time in Morocco, viewing the world through the smeared glass of a battered Russian bus, became a metaphor for how memory operates: imperfect, obscured, yet powerful.
‘Mirage’, 2025. Acrylic paint and C-Type Kodak Professional Endura print on canvas, varnish. Unique state. Available for sale.