Sylwia Kowalczyk

Nightwatching (2011) - work in progress

Nightwatching is a very personal response to the staggering experience of coping without one of the most important senses - eyesight.

In 2008 I went through a harrowing and complicated eye operation that happily successfully restored my vision. Since experiencing distorted vision at that time, I have since been constantly analysing how we perceive our world and whether what we actually see is indeed the true and only image of reality. We perceive their image in a distorted way which our brain somehow adjusts to and which seem to begin to take on their own reality.