I write posts and essays covering contemporary culture, art history, exhibition reviews, film & animation, graphic design, advice for artists and philosophical musings. To see all posts I’ve published here, please visit the Archive. For articles on painting background, theory and techniques, please visit my other blog. Enjoy!
Every place has its secrets if you’re willing to patiently dig under the surface. Exploring Tokyo’s secrets & dark nooks was the beginning of my trip around Japan, during which the koyo zensen, i.e. autumn foliage spotting, was not limited to nature or leaves, but became a research into the culture and its symbols under the theme of colour.
This is the second part of my New York trip saga. While the first one focused mostly on the island of Manhattan, now I’m going to look at the characteristics of some of the other islands and oasis within this great city. In a recent post about Luxembourg, I emphasised the country’s cultural and linguistic diversity. With New York, this…
A few years ago I wrote a blog post in which I shared my experiences and observations after one year of living in Portugal. It was very much a “should I stay or should I go” kind of article, as I had very mixed feelings about my life there. As it happened, three months after publishing the post I moved back to Warsaw and felt a great sense of relief. I also felt, having moved countries a good few times by that point, that perhaps I had had my share of packing and sending boxes back and forth, and perhaps the time had come to make Warsaw my permanent home.
When I was fifteen and listened to all sorts of weird bands whose CDs were unobtainable in local record stores and the only way to get them was by hunting them down in London upon visiting my aunt, I once saw a rather intriguing classified ad in Brum, a rock magazine “for young bandits”, as one journalist called it. The…
With the 5G network on our doorstep, I recently began to wonder about speed in our life. The long-awaited 5G technology is meant to be 400 times faster than 4G, but perhaps there’s a price to pay — not only for the actual plan and necessary hardware accessories, but potentially in our health, since there are concerns about a substantial…
A few weeks ago I was in London and had lunch with Brooke, a dear friend of mine who is a cognitive hypnotherapist. As usual, we talked about a lot of things related to self-development, including various kinds of therapy and methods of working on the relationship with ourselves which, as we know, forms the basis for our well-being and…
A few weeks ago I read a blood-curling interview with physicist Szymon Malinowski about the consequences of global warming. Malinowski, who is a professor at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and co-author of the book Nauka o klimacie (“Climate Science”) holds an extremely grim view of what awaits us in the not-so distant future. To cut…
Today is my birthday and I wanted to celebrate it by trying something new. I’ve long planned to revitalise my blog, but as much as I love writing +2000 word essays with dozens of references, these days I simply struggle to find the time for it so I’ve been thinking of introducing a shorter form to my blog. The…
