A column by Bronka Nowicka, an interdisciplinary artist, a graduate of the Film School in Łódź and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and a winner of the Nike Literary Award. “What if people paraded in words. You would buy a bale of literary material of any genre, then go to order something really chic, to be worn on your naked body. You would throw a roll of text on your shoulders and, whistling, carry it to the studio with a sign: Linguistic Tailoring services, or Poetry Sewing Room - 24/7.”
Bronka Nowicka examines the architecture of depicting with words. She follows load-bearing structures that support meaning in visual literature. What malleable mortar connects the words in the Reinforced Concrete Poem by futurist Vasily Kamienski? How do Strzemiński and Kobro build the Z ponad (From Above) volume from Przyboś' poem blocks? What specific binder does Dróżdż put between the bricks of letters? Which way do the spans of sentences run towards associations? Where do the metaphors embedded in the graphic figures fly away? When she bends over the figures of linked images and words, another question arises: about their original relationship, the nature of the intersection. Words and images are bound by the history of loss that is to change the inner landscape of a human being.