This project began with a forced migration, driven by war. Arriving in an unfamiliar city, I found myself lost in uncertainty. Walking through Warsaw and tracing its architecture became a fragile form of healing, a way to bring order to thoughts when everything around me felt unsettled. The rigid lines and monumental forms pressed against my mind, demanding clarity, structure, and silence.

The sharp geometry and high contrast inevitably led me toward Suprematism. Yet here, abstraction was not a theory but a necessity—an attempt to distance myself from reality, to see only the rhythm of lines, reliefs, shapes, and shadows.

Black and white was the only possible language. At that time, color no longer carried meaning or joy; the world revealed itself only in shifting shades of grey.

A second migration, and my eventual return to Warsaw, allowed me to bring the project to completion. What began as survival slowly transformed into a way of seeing—of abstracting myself into abstraction, and of finding fragile balance in absence.

Warsaw, 2022–2025