„Psalmy Wszystkie” is a collection of writings by Tadeusz Nowak - „Psalmy”, published in 1974, and „Nowe Psalmy” from 1978. The project consists of a handmade book in a wooden cover made of a board from a barn from my dad’s home village. The book has
an open spine, is sewn with thread and covered with oilcloth on which the title of the collection is handwritten. The format of the book is reminiscent of the size of a prayer book, which emphasises the stylistic form chosen by the author - a psalm.
Tadeusz Nowak was the one who distinguished peasant culture in Polish literature. The work of this almost forgotten poet does not exist on the publishing market. The attempt is my personal tribute to restore his tender and toughtful works
In his works, Nowak explained what he knew about man through nature. Using photos I taken in my father’s home village I have illustrated the world in which and about which the author wrote.
an open spine, is sewn with thread and covered with oilcloth on which the title of the collection is handwritten. The format of the book is reminiscent of the size of a prayer book, which emphasises the stylistic form chosen by the author - a psalm.
Tadeusz Nowak was the one who distinguished peasant culture in Polish literature. The work of this almost forgotten poet does not exist on the publishing market. The attempt is my personal tribute to restore his tender and toughtful works
In his works, Nowak explained what he knew about man through nature. Using photos I taken in my father’s home village I have illustrated the world in which and about which the author wrote.
There are currently five people living in the village. Hardly anyone knows about this place, it is slowly being devoured by the surrounding forest, slowly becoming the past. And precisely this forgetfulness allows the reader to be transported into Nowak’s world. The images
of the disappearing settlement transformed into old photographs physically refer to the disintegration of the world the poet captured.
Stepping into Nowak’s world is an intimate journey, hence the choice to give as many individual features as possible to a single copy. Throughout the book there are bookmarks which refer to the form of a diary. They hide/ conceal handwritten titles of works, dedications or notes. The photographs and objects discovered one by one in the copy refer to the world described by Nowak, but also,
by their very presence, they open various paths of interpretation.
of the disappearing settlement transformed into old photographs physically refer to the disintegration of the world the poet captured.
Stepping into Nowak’s world is an intimate journey, hence the choice to give as many individual features as possible to a single copy. Throughout the book there are bookmarks which refer to the form of a diary. They hide/ conceal handwritten titles of works, dedications or notes. The photographs and objects discovered one by one in the copy refer to the world described by Nowak, but also,
by their very presence, they open various paths of interpretation.
Book format: 10.5 cm x 15 cm, 232 pages.
graduation project
promotor: prof. Maciej Buszewicz, asisstant Paulina Derecka.
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graduation project
promotor: prof. Maciej Buszewicz, asisstant Paulina Derecka.
all rights reserved.
