Iwona Chmielewska
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The book "How Hard It Is to Be a King" is based on selected fragments of "King Matt the First" with a superb graphic interpretation by Iwona Chmielewska.
"How many corners does a pillow have? The same as a duvet. How many corners does the book have? The same as a pillow". On the pages of the book, along with the child the world around them - beloved animals, toys and items - are prepared to sleep.
Poetry of Krystyna Miłobędzka dressed in transparent, metaphorical images. On the following pages and their reverses, a visual transformation of some phenomena into successive and subsequent ones takes place.
Play with shape, but also a serious book about the right to make mistakes and changing them into value. Imagination is used to repair the world and relationships.
An attempt to commemorate the Jewish inhabitants of Lublin, whose world was irreparably destroyed. Photographs from before the war come to life in a solemn and friendly atmosphere in the company of simple poems for children by Józef Czechowicz. A touching story about life, but from our contemporary perspective, also about death.
Poetic story of Justyna Bargielska about a mother and her growing up daughter, about leaving and fears connected with it. The visual tale in a surprising way accompanies the text and sketches it in.
A story about the miracle of looking and seeing, and not seeing, when other senses replace eyes and take over their functions perfectly. A book in which two openings and the same motif of two circles turn into a metaphorical story of the fullness of life.
A book that uses symbols of power, possession, but also shows the weaknesses of a witch – an independent, but so dependent, woman. New possibilities of poetic visual metaphor open when symbolically cutting a page with a paper knife.
A dictionary in which the famous phenomena, customs and environment of German-speaking countries are presented. History, geography, famous people of art, scientists take shape of letters that talk about words. A poetic book with a lot of information.
The author of the text compares the human soul and mind to the house and its various functions. The book is also constructed as architecture for living. You can move it, animate its pages and discover the secrets of spirituality.

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