“The Elephant” / Maria Stafyniak

“The Elephant” – community arts
Concept: Maria Stafyniak

The meeting with the Other takes place daily, continually, no matter where I am. It happens when I wake up, and when I sleep, when I look in the mirror, and when I meet a man for the first time. I still experience that when meeting another, I meet myself. This is very important – I am still forgetting about it and it still comes back to my memory. Recently I have often been to playgrounds and I am fascinated by the gap between the world of adults, focused on the meaning of all activities, and the world of children who love the taste of seemingly idle fun. I am looking for a meeting place, for a space that tells me: “You are here and now, you do not need to do anything, you do not need to go anywhere, there is nothing you have to understand, there is nothing you have to think or say.

Maria Stafyniak