In June 2022, Fundacja Art House began it’s Artist in Residence program in Oleśnica. Artistic stays are organized by the Art House Foundation under the patronage of MOKIS in Oleśnica.

The first resident is an artist from Wrocław – Aneta Lewandowska, whose stay, based on daily walks, began at the beginning of June. The artist uses organic elements of Oleśnica in her creative work. While wandering around the city, she collects what is waiting to decompose. For her, plants are the urban fabric, and sticks and leaves are nomads– subject to the will of the wind.

The changes in my places of life stop surprising me. I inevitably walk between new spaces and addresses. I tame them over and over again when the changing seasons pass in my veins. My fingers are unsuccessfully looking for ground in the fertile soil to take root.

When I touch particles of people and plants, I am surprised by the common tendency to create fragile forms of survival. In a repetitive cycle of constant changes, dispersing into a multitude of diverse states, unpredictability becomes the norm. Meeting among the intertwined fortunes, what is ordinary, is out of control. And the combination of tissue unstable and surprisingly resilient at the same time, nomadically forms a network of such strong connections.

In the summer of 2022 the artist traveled to three unique locations, creating a series of drawings on handmade paper in each place. The three locations are a ranch located in rural Texas, an artist-run studio residency in upstate New York, and another artist-run studio residency in Wroclaw, Poland.

In preparation for each trip, I will create several large sheets of handmade paper. While creating the paper, I will anticipate my destination. Creating the substrate for a drawing ahead of time and in a different location will expand both the paper-making and drawing experience and allow me to create works that contain multiple states of mind. When making the paper, I will include other flat elements (other kinds of paper, litter, stationary, found objects, etc.) in an effort to present obstacles in the surface where the drawing, that will take place on location, will have to contend with. Consequently, when I am drawing on site I will also be in conversation with the work done previously. In this conversation, I hope to find connections between the places I go to and return to, as well as connections between the routine and the experimental. While in each location, I plan to work intuitively, responding directly to both the minutia left in the paper, my experience of the new location, and inevitably the landscape. My aim is that through this repetitive process of dislocation and close study of place, I will produce a record of a present interconnectedness both geographically and mentally.