My grandmother witnessed the brutal murder of her baby sister  in Second World War Poland.

This trauma was transmitted in an untold way through my mother to me.

I got aware of it when I became myself a mother.

"Children of the golden Sun" is documenting the inner journey of transmuting this pain.

 

In my family the existence of this sister faded away, only her name remained.

I remember my mother referring to it : “We thought it was the name of a dog”.

Within her, the memory already died. It became stone.

Yet, this “dog” stayed with me.

 

In this project, I do not represent war.

Instead I decided to explore the human internal world.

To bring into awareness the internal pieces that hyper-violence destroys, for generations.

Shaping how life is being experienced. I am searching to give an expression

to the process of regaining memories, rebuilding the fragmented parts,

finding back the feeling of belonging to a universal structure.

 

What has happened to the child?

What has happened to our childlike essence?

 

I chose to show the metaphorical story of a young girl.

The wholeness of nature is reflecting upon her shattered body, soul.

Bringing back memories of a self she didn’t know existed.

Her life was written in stone, but now it becomes fluid.

She discovers that feelings and thoughts can flow through her body like waves without becoming attached.

This leads to an inner transformation, transmutation.

A reality she can only accept, not control.

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An internal prayer.

The Sun that illuminates the truth.

The sea that eases the process of transmutation. 

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For we carry the Sun within us. 

For we carry the sea within us.