Ada Augustyniak | Poland
The book reflects the anxiety and the feeling of helplessness caused by living in the modern world, in the climate change era.
The book starts with a letter to a mountain written by a teenager, followed by a series of analogue images printed in the form of the foldable accordion, one long image. The images are drawn with permanent markers and colored pencils.
For a long time I’ve been using the ‘bleed through’ reflections of marker drawings as a technique to create illustrations and images, with the aim of evoking specific philosophical ideas or emotions. In this book, every other image is a bleeding through of the previous drawing. When folded, it can be seen as a reflection, while unfolded - it can be an independent image.
The idea of the book came to me during the pandemic, when I was obsessively missing mountains and couldn’t go there because of the lockdown restrictions. Then, I imagined that a teenager may feel this way all the time. The feelings of the author of the letter is my own anxiety and helplessness, which I feel when I think of climate change. Creating this book made me feel less hopeless, as if the Mountain really read the letter.
Education:
no art school, only Philosophy Department at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Graduation: 2009
Published titles: 2