Szpieg z Krainy Deszczowców

This is a real treasure among graffiti. Let me introduce you to the Spy from the Rain Peoples Country – a hero of children’s tale. He was following The Wawel Dragon who had set off on a rescue expedition with help to professor Baltazar Gąbka. I forgot about existing all those heroes, so to find this picture it was nice surprise for me.

smiling oval

When I was trying to find The Museum of Modern Art it was raining very hard. It was cold, dark, wet… I almost surrounded, when I saw the building. I got in and went to café to have some tea firstly. Then I bought a ticket and started to look for something interesting for me. In second room I saw a picture of Jean Miro with a smile especially for me in it. There was an white oval, like a head, with a smile. Background was brown with black lines symbolizing a corner of a room. It was beautifully balance for this terrible weather, like a bicycle in the picture taken on a street in San Francisco. Beautiful, but it is a pity for me that I can’t understand an inscription.

instead of...

When I have to do something in the city after my work, usually going home I have to change my bus on the stop near dormitories of Technical University. I noticed a long time ago, that there is a small graffiti there. This is a picture of a girl with red flower in her dark hair. Below there is a rose with a drop of blood dripping from its thorn. I have never made a picture of it because of not enough light for making photo. I will do it one day, but at the moment we must be satisfied with a photo of the same graffiti without the rose. This is a stop of tram number 14.

gobblin, gnome... ?

One day I went for a walk to the mountains to Dwernik Kamień. A path was leading via forest. It was hard way, all the time up and up. After two hours I was very tired. Suddenly I saw a forest gnome, or other kind of monster. It had a body of a tree and orange eyes. Before I get afraid, I said to myself that it couldn’t be real and it mast be a problem with my mind because of tiredness. But it was real – as you can see it was a tree with some signs made by foresters.

from behind

There was a big crowd in Venice. I remember only tourists. From the perspective of time it was very good decision to take a gondola ride. It cost a lot of money but for 5 people the price was acceptable (especially after long negotiations)… It was nice and gave a possibility to see a bit of real Venice – for tourists but from behind.

a citizen of Padova

After long day of trip we went to a restaurant in Padua a bit too early. The door was open but staff was surprised seeing guests at half past six. We could observe how the restaurant was preparing to another evening – like in the film I Served the King of England. The main hero of the film was like an actor playing in a spectacle. The same was with those waiters in the restaurant.
In the photo: a citizen of Padua. You can meet such pictures almost everywhere.

An angel and a scull…

I found that angel when I was going from a train station to a hotel in Venice. It is an extraordinary welcome, isn’t it? An angel and a scull… probably it refers to traditional warnings placed on electric devices. There was the first surprising thing in that day. Second happened to me in the hotel. W took a shower, after I had came there. At one point I found a bottle of shampoo on the bottom of shower cubicle. It had been left by the previous occupant of that room. A chambermaid didn’t notice that because it was possible only from inside of the cubicle. I used soap form the bottle. It was for me like a wink to that person – like saying hello.

fish

In the Museum of Modern Art in Newcastle I so a book about graffiti. In the book there were only pictures, not any analysis of the art. I was disappointed… I have also a lot of graffiti in my collection…but even for me it is not enough only to make pictures.
In the picture: Fish somewhere in Aarhus.

...snails

Going to work I usually a pass small public garden next to the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy. Lately some modern sculptures appeared in the garden. Generally, I would say that they are terrible. They look like crazy erotic imagination of snails. They are tasteless to be honest. One of them is named "Transformation". This title meant for me nothing till the moment when some vandal damaged the sculpture a bit. In the part of this abstract snail, where the head appeared that it should be a head, the vandal painted a schematic nose, eyes and a smile. Thanks to that, the snail transformed to hearty character of a funny fairy tale.

somewhere in Edinbourgh

butterfly

Colorful butterflies on Reykjavik wall.

more eyes

an eye

a dog and...

In the picture: I suppose his is a dog with a man and a woman. I took the pictures in Aarhus in the morning when I was going to for a meeting. I could see it from my window in a hotel, but in to big distance to take a photo.

old people

We went to Aarhus via Copenhagen. We had a lot of time between flights, so we went to the city. In some cafeteria I had the last good coffee in that week. After that we were walking around. I found graffiti I don’t like. In the pictures: I don’t accept destroying beautiful things. Those sculptures should be save from such “improving”.

Smile

The Institution I work for moved our office in other place. I go to my work by bus. I got out on the stop next to Academy of Mining and Metallurgy. Then I turn left and go along main street. The way is long and, especially in wintertime, not very nice, but I smile at least one time – when I pass a gate smiling to me.

an old public garden

I went to my home city to visit my parents. Because of bad weather I decided to leave my car and take a train. When I was a student it was going there very often by train. Till today I remember old Cracovian tenements along the train line. I was surprised that a lot of them were rebuild. Equally surprising was that many of them are still in very bad state. It’s a paradox… I should have been expecting that it will be like this.
In Rzeszów I was walking a lot. I went for example to a public garden, where I spent a lot of time during my childhood. With my grandmother I was walking there, I was sledging and I was gathering chestnuts. In the photo: a wall of Scholl of Art next to the garden. I was dreaming about studying in the School till the moment when I understood that some talent is required in order to do that.

walk with a dog

I spent holidays at home. This is a mature choice to stay at home if you have a dog which is afraid of a sound of fireworks. He feels better with his friends and in places he knows well. We were escaped from those sounds to the nearest meadows. This is a beautiful surroundings. Two artificial lakes, empty fields – with flowers in the spring or summer time and flat white sheets in winter. I knew haw it was there, but I was really surprised when I saw frozen lakes with anglers on it, fishing in theirs blowhole. I really don’t understand such kind of hobby but I must admit that they looked beautiful in this landscape. I saw also a wild deer running into a forest. It’s hardly difficult to believe that this place is so close to such a big city.
I didn’t have my camera with me during the walk so I publish a photo form Plovdiv. It is also connected with my holidays: during them I tried to get some control over a mess in my computer. I deleted many files and photos. Thanks to that I found many things which reminded me nice memories. In the photo you can see the view from hotels window. It was two years ago.
This is a mosaic, but I can treat it as a graffiti, can’t I?

An Angel

The time of angles is coming.
In the photo: It is not Christmas Angel. I’ve found it in my hometown Rzeszów. It looks a bit ghostly, doesn’t it?

Aarhus some month ago

Everything everywhere here is simple and modest. Buildings and furniture is perfectly adjusted to a user need. Beauty comes form this simplicity. Simple walls made of bricks are covered by grapevine. When you look through the window whilst working at university, you can see the green space which looks like an endless meadow. It is useful, isn’t it? You can have a while of rest. It improves your concentration on the work if you can look at green surface for a moment. I like art around us. On the hotel walls hang pictures with dishes in abstract form. On streets there are sculptures showing scenes of everyday life. Also murals are simple and close to the people. I love this flower in a flowers pot.