“My Two Homelands is a series of oil paintings, which contain locations that have become important to me in my original and my adoptive homelands. Nearly fourteen years ago I moved from my birthplace Żyrardów Poland to Cary, NC USA. Even though time has passed, I often miss my home country. Many of my landscapes are an expression of this longing. Just like a transplanted plant slowly takes root in new soil, I was going through a slow process of getting used to a new place and culture. Over time Cary has become as important to me as the city of my birth. Today, I can say that I have two homelands, and when I’m in one of them, I miss the other. Practicing landscape painting allows me to overcome this longing. Of course in the real world it is impossible to be in two places at once, but in the world of art, my spirit can move to different, distant places.”
