postscript
/ Anna - Warsaw – Berlin – Dobrodzien, 03th May 2005
A
drunked man walked up to me and said, “Princess, I have a pen
for you, will you give me 4 zlotys?”
I come from Dobrodzien, a small town located on the route between
Czestochowa and Opole. It is a town of good people who greet each
other with a “Dzien Dobry” (good morning) every day, just
as in the past they greeted each other with a “Gutten Tag”.
It has no more than five thousand inhabitants, and practically all
of them know each other, everyone knows who is who, who is a thief
and who is the pharmacist.
For years now the newsstand has been selling the same postcard of
the town square, where you can see the town hall and my family’s
home with the bookshop on the ground floor.
I am someone who moves about from place to place. Sometimes I sleep
at friends’ homes, sometimes in apartments I rent for short
periods.
I spend most of my time on trains, buses. “Any place I hang
my hat is home.” I see myself through the people I have met
and recorded with my camera on my wanted and unwanted travels. Warsaw
– Berlin – Dobrodzien, Dobrodzien – Vienna –
Stuttgart, Warsaw – Moscow – Berlin – Warsaw, there
and back, there and back.
I met a Romany woman. “Girl” – she said –
“lay down 4 zlotys and this gypsy will tell you the truth. Don’t
be afraid of the road, you’ll meet many good people along yours.
All your life will be a journey.” (...)
