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two views of the exhibition (photo Wiesław Szumiński and Ranka Mutevelić) 

 

Trieste Zeugma
by Krzysztof Czyżewski

 

 

BRIDGE – try to go over 

my word, or think

your bridge-word.

 

In the body: I, river, bank, tower, chasm, path, threshold, exit

In the mind: It, eternity, unknown side, identity, darkness, striving, crossing over, exile

In the heart: You, love, longing, nesting, fear, unsatisfaction, Other, return

 

"I" was born from splitting. Unsatisfied.

With the arrow of longing it reaches the luminous twin

and only then does „I“ find itself.

 

Paths – there are many, because once thrown into

the world we are split like light in a prism.

Reaching the bank they must intertwine into one knot

in order to cross over. It is the art of bonding

that makes the master of this journey.

 

It happens inside us. The chasm, and the threshold,

and the darkness. The unknown side

does not lie outside us. In order to reach it,

we turn our face to the Other,

who dwells within us. That is how we return to ourselves.

 

The artistry of the bond can be measured

in the crossing over to the other side, but its mystery

in the way it enables return.

 

It is better to be hated for

what you are, then loved

for what you are not. The love

that loses its „I“ on the narrow fibre in between,

needs both the tower and the nesting.

 

Eternity is a river that flows

within us, invisible. Beyond this chasm, 

beyond fear, we build: INVISIBLE.