“In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called ‘Karczeby’. With their bare hands Karczeby cleared forests in order to grow crops.
The word Karczeb is also used to describe what remains after a tree is cut down – a trunk with roots.”
Adam Pańczuk, born in 1978 in Biała Podlaska / Poland, is a graduate of University of Economics and Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Damian
via website
03 Feb 2010
Danke für den Eintrag – eine wirklich schöne Entdeckung. Frisch und abwechslungsreich.
LeanneMeurer
via website
04 Feb 2010
What an amazing photograph. I froze with shock and awe the second I came across it. Chills filled my body and my heart ached for this man buried in a hole. I am unsure if he’s in this hole for his own reasons or someone forced him in to the hole. He looks like a hardworking man that knows the true meaning of hard labor. The tree is symbolic of growth, crops growing. He is beneath the object he puts into the ground and the reason it is still standing. As a farmer he gives life to plants, he is the reason they survive. By putting himself in the hole he is becoming what he grows, almost trading places. In a way, he grows when he helps the plants grow, like him and the plants are one.